Adalytics’ report contains a long list of the advertisers whose Google search ads it reports being able to observe displayed on U.S. Treasury OFAC SDN sanctioned, Iranian, and/or pornographic websites — including the following public bodies, companies, organizations and politicians: The United States Treasury; the European Commission; political fundraising search ad campaigns for Senator Ted Cruz, Senator Amy Klobuchar, Congressman David Trone, Congresswoman Lauren Boebert, House Minority Speaker Hakeem Jeffries, the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC), Republican National Committee (RNC), the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee (DLCC), and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC); the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), U.S. Secret Service, Department of Defense (Military OneSource), U.S. Intelligence Community, National Security Agency (NSA), General Services Administration (GSA), and U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (healthcare.gov); U.S. Army, Air Force, Coast Guard, National Guard, Space Force, the British Royal Air Force, the Dutch Ministry of Defense, and the Belgian Ministry of Defense; hundreds of major and Fortune 500 brands, including Apple, Lego, Deloitte, Accenture, KPMG, Microsoft, Amazon, BMW, Home Depot, Uber, Google, Meta, Samsung, Paramount+, TikTok, Pinterest, Snap Chat, and Snowflake; adtech vendors such as Human Security & DoubleVerify; nonprofits such as United Jewish Appeal, International Fellowship of Christians and Jews, One for Israel, American Cancer Society, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Save the Children, and the British Heart Foundation; several major media publishers, such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, The Financial Times, The Globe & Mail,… Click below to read the full story from TechCrunch
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