Is Google Targeting Pregnancy Resource Centers and Pro-Life Organizations ‘For Disfavor’? One US Senator thinks so.
Senator Josh Hawley called on Google to explain its recent censorship of pro-life ads.
In a letter addressed to Google Chief Executive Officer Sundar Pichai, Hawley called on Google to explain why ads placed by the pro-life organizations Live Action and Choose Life Marketing had been “seemingly censored.”
Among other questions, the Missouri senator asked Google what contact its executives and leaders have had with abortion advocacy organizations in the last month, and what steps it has taken to ensure that ad eligibility decisions are not affected by Google employee bias.
Hawley wrote in a letter to the Google executive, “When I spoke with Mark Zuckerberg about a similar issue in September 2019, he acknowledged the danger of bias on the parts of content reviewers in this area, particularly where pro-life activist groups like Live Action are concerned. But if your company’s behavior is any indication, those concerns have gone unaddressed.”
“Rather,” the senator continued, “your company appears to have taken a page out of the progressive left playbook and has started targeting pregnancy resource centers and pro-life activist organizations for disfavor.”
The senator said that Choose Life Marketing found that its ads running for a client in the Washington, D.C., metro area were not running, “even though Google designated them as eligible to run.”
Google refused to tell Choose Life Marketing why their ads had been rejected.