Ads for medical face masks were temporarily banned worldwide during the COVID-19 outbreak
- Date
- Mar 11, 2020 (first reported)
- Primary source
- Search Engine Land
Citing a surge in misleading coronavirus claims, Google blocked all medical face mask ads and commerce listings globally as a temporary measure under its sensitive events policy, having already removed hundreds of thousands of virus-related ads since January.
Sources
- open_in_newGoogle bans face mask ads globally due to misleading coronavirus claimsSearch Engine Land · Mar 11, 2020
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