Google to Push Anti-ISIS Ads Because 'Murica

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The past weekend was a little busy, what with yet another GOP debate and this football game no one cared about, so you may have missed Google’s really interesting and nationalistic news.

You could say, “It was the bomb!”

The Guardian reports that if Google users decide to look up anything remotely anti-American or anything to do with terrorism, the search juggernaut will use its predicative and geotargeting algorithms to position anti-ISIS advertising.

The schemes were mentioned by Anthony House, senior manager for public policy and communications at Google, who was at a home affairs select committee hearing on countering extremism.

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