Amid an Advertiser Exodus, Even YouTube's Own Ads Are Running on Vile Content

An embarrassing sign of the problem's breadth

To cap off a week of companies like AT&T, Verizon and Johnson & Johnson pulling their ad dollars from YouTube due to placement around offensive videos on the platform, it was shown today that not even YouTube’s own brand is safe from the problem.

On Friday afternoon, Wall Street Journal reporter Jack Nicas tweeted a screenshot of an ad for a YouTube Red original movie appearing as pre-roll on a user-submitted video called “Michelle Obama Dancing to Alabama Ni**er.” The revelation came moments after Nicas tweeted that Walmart,

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