Google Censors Animal Rights Activists Ad Criticizing Fauci-Backed Experiments – by Zaid Jilani – I N Q U I R E
The White Coat Waste Project (WCW) works to reduce the use of taxpayer-backed animal testing. They do this through a combination of investigating government-backed research, educating Americans about this research, and then mobilizing people to pressure the government to stop supporting animal experimentation.
Earlier this summer, they used Freedom of Information Act requests to uncover documents showing that Anthony Fauci s division at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent $424,000 to commission a study in which healthy beagles are given an experimental drug and then intentionally infested with flies that carry a disease-causing parasite that affects humans.
In order to publicize this research and pressure the government to stop experiments they view as cruel to dogs, WCW began running ads on both Google and Facebook to highlight the practice.
To spread the word, we attempted to run Google search ads so that when people searched for NIH or Fauci or Fauci dogs, they d see ads about the experiments that are being funded by the NIH, Justin Goodman, the VP of Advocacy and Public Policy at the organization, told me.
But the same day they began running these ads on Google, August 23rd, they were quickly pulled down by the company.
Not only did they take them down, but they suspended our account. It remains suspended now. And they ve refused to provide any information about what was wrong with the ads and why they took them down, Goodman said.
That darn Google. Always suppressing something.