This is stupid and confusing, so: as far as I can tell, NBC did not misreport Google banning The Federalist. Google issued a couple of very badly phrased statements, then resolved its issues with The Federalist and reversed plans to demonetize it. https://t.co/heStNDpaKU

— Adi Robertson (@thedextriarchy) June 16, 2020

I hate the word "chilling," but every bit of this is exactly that.

NBC effectively got The Federalist kicked off Google Ads by citing a British think tank that was upset that Federalist had an article that noted looting and rioting at Floyd protests. https://t.co/hZyGVH6z8k pic.twitter.com/UUFxVcR5LS

— Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) June 16, 2020

So NBC is triumphantly promoting their successful targeting of smaller media but Google says the smaller entities have yet to actually be demonetized.

cc @AMFraserNBC @NBC_VC https://t.co/X9t9e0TuGk

— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) June 16, 2020

The only real difference between media in communist countries and the United States is editorial control in communist countries is held by the politboro, and in the “free and independent media ” US it is held by Madison Avenue. https://t.co/NCnOShv5Zz

— Tony Hrvatska ?? (@tonybalogna) June 16, 2020

I warned you tasking big tech with job of speech monitors would have a lot of consequences many if them unforseen. Google can't really argue it isn't a publisher but just a platform if it is providing guidance on such matters. I'd be very cautious giving this to big tech https://t.co/lAgireXjZ3

— Cartogropher Balding 大老板 (@BaldingsWorld) June 17, 2020

Courage is contagious. cc Mark Zuckerberg https://t.co/G6rgus3nX6

— Jason Kint (@jason_kint) June 16, 2020

Free enterprise and light-touch regulation except when the market decides that my team’s increasingly abhorrent views are no longer profitable to monetize. https://t.co/wClJ5gVRjI

— David Carroll ? (@profcarroll) June 17, 2020

The Federalist was never demonetized.

— Google Communications (@Google_Comms) June 16, 2020

It's a dark precedent, no matter your political views, when a single tech company has so much power to make or break websites. Google is a monopoly and the next Democratic administration must use the federal government's trust-busting powers against it. https://t.co/4PFv2TzefR

— Ross Barkan (@RossBarkan) June 16, 2020

I mean, companies setting policies is diff than the government's own set of regulations, but do you https://t.co/tH7c8Rxkmk

— alex (@alex) June 16, 2020

"A Google spokesperson told The Verge that the outlets weren’t being demonetized because of these articles, and The Federalist isn’t formally banned yet. Instead, they’re supposedly being blocked because of endemic racist commenters across their sites." https://t.co/MjVtM8V9WC pic.twitter.com/5nKkeNgNb0

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) June 16, 2020

Also, this doesn't make it better. Publish opinions we want or else...

Google is walking headfirst into admitting they are a publisher whether they know it or not. https://t.co/QPnLea6Ms3

— Stephen L. Miller (@redsteeze) June 16, 2020

And of course Josh Hawley has to jump into the muck cluelessly. https://t.co/Nur4CxIzcv

— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) June 17, 2020

Should NBC News (also being sued for its Covingtongate hoax) be banned from social media for spreading disinformation? https://t.co/EiQVjGqN2A

— Blue Flu Cernovich (@Cernovich) June 16, 2020

Wait, wait - you want to treat the @FDRLST comment section, which they don’t curate, as THEIR speech but simultaneously say the content you directly host and modify IS NOT your speech under Section 230? Wow, this is getting really interesting https://t.co/QEtpCtssco

— Josh Hawley (@HawleyMO) June 16, 2020

Google makes one of the strongest arguments yet for Section 230 reform. https://t.co/WUwZ6twS7C

— Brendan Carr (@BrendanCarrFCC) June 16, 2020

Federalist gets cancelled. Love it. https://t.co/UuAalEeRpJ

— Daniel J. Winarick, Ph.D. (@DrWinarick) June 16, 2020

Google approved me for their Ad Network back in July and by September 1st, I was removed with no plausible reason. We hit both sides of the political aisle too but lean conservative https://t.co/lA2jD6oSpU

— ✭ Wayne Dupree ✭ (@WayneDupreeShow) June 16, 2020

A Google spokesperson tells me that @NBCNews gets it wrong. Google says The Federalist was notified they *could* be demonetized but hasn't yet been. They can still remedy.

Google also says the sites' comments section not any articles were in violation.https://t.co/Nl9SmJBnEX

— Scott Nover (@ScottNover) June 16, 2020

Is Josh Hawley aware that Google is not the government y/n https://t.co/eNqOaPzlmg

— nilay patel (@reckless) June 17, 2020

And yer Twitter restored ZeroHedge’s account a few weeks ago... https://t.co/lOfKY5KuOW

— File411 (@File411) June 16, 2020

Our policies do not allow ads to run against dangerous or derogatory content, which includes comments on sites, and we offer guidance and best practices to publishers on how to comply. https://t.co/zPO669Yd0p

— Google Communications (@Google_Comms) June 16, 2020

American journalism has long been remarkably successful at regulating itself - through internal oversight and outlets keeping each other in check. That model has weakened over the past few years, and apparently big tech wants to come to the rescue. I guess. https://t.co/0k6Rj27yAN

— Brian Hart (@BrianHartPR) June 16, 2020

We worked with them to address issues on their site related to the comments section.

— Google Communications (@Google_Comms) June 16, 2020

As always, Hawley either doesn't understand how Section 230 works, or is being deliberately deceitful. https://t.co/pxyrJcTwC8

— Dan Gillmor (@dangillmor) June 17, 2020

At least there’s nothing untoward in YouTube’s comments section. Google is really setting high standards there. https://t.co/C61WgTUrtf

— Michael Brendan Dougherty (@michaelbd) June 17, 2020

thoughts and prayers https://t.co/t0OjSQeFOD

— Michael STAY HOME/SAVE LIVES Latz (@RavMABAY) June 16, 2020

Google has the power to almost singlehandedly destroy any media outlet, based on arbitrary and politically-contingent criteria. If you trust Google to come up with a neutral definition of “dangerous or derogatory content,” you are delusional https://t.co/ZssChe4d11

— Michael Tracey (@mtracey) June 16, 2020

As usual big tech wants to have it both ways where they can censor one side and not face any consequences on the other. https://t.co/zwiKWQoOzU

— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) June 16, 2020

This is egregious because both “violators” were brought to Google’s attention by an NBC reporter pushing claims from left-wing nonprofits — a reporter who couldn’t get her facts right.

Our editorial on @AMFraserNBC's pathetic hit job on The Federalist.https://t.co/YgWFKB4Fxt

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) June 16, 2020

A fresh sign of Google’s excessive power https://t.co/O93kzYqNe8

— Internet Accountability Project (IAP) (@The_IAP) June 17, 2020

If @Google, @Google_Comms doesn’t rethink this policy, it’s begging for the feds to crack down.

The New York Post's editorial, tomorrow's paper. https://t.co/YgWFKB4Fxt

— Sohrab Ahmari (@SohrabAhmari) June 17, 2020

"For a purely online publication, it’s a death threat: Google is warning two sites, ZeroHedge and The Federalist, that it will cut them off from Google Ads revenue because of reader posts in their comments sections." https://t.co/TvwzMi0lqx

— Rachel Bovard (@rachelbovard) June 17, 2020

A fresh sign of Google’s excessive power https://t.co/6pXTf3SPBO

— Amber Smith (@AmberSmithUSA) June 17, 2020

ZeroHedge and The Federalist have been banned from Google advertising because of racism.

Do you know how bad you have to be that Google says you can't even make them money anymore? jfc.https://t.co/G7dvyOohS4

— Xy, ? Queen (@XylariaVG) June 17, 2020

GOOGLE BANS THE FEDERALIST AND ZEROHEDGE! HOW IS THIS ALLOWED?! https://t.co/LfpuIWVdtY

— DEPLORABLE PATRIOT (@TheRightWayMAGA) June 16, 2020

It's working great for Googlehttps://t.co/fWap9yIdqW

— John Marzan (@marzan04) June 16, 2020

I wrote up a quick thing on how what happened to the Federalist is not an example of "bias" against conservative sites, and appears to be the identical situation as to what happened to us. https://t.co/fLLjNGLG6s It's still a silly policy by Google, but...

— Mike Masnick (@mmasnick) June 16, 2020

Yet another digital company walks the fine line between platform and publisher and punishes conservative voices with arbitrary decisions.https://t.co/rL3KungrVZ

— newtgingrich (@newtgingrich) June 17, 2020

“Both ‘violators’ were brought to Google’s attention by an NBC reporter pushing claims from left-wing nonprofits — a reporter who couldn’t get her own facts right.”

From the Post Editorial Board: https://t.co/Wb0QY28InT

— The Federalist (@FDRLST) June 17, 2020

"A fresh sign of Google’s excessive power" https://t.co/iC92sbDLqZ

— Spartacus Lives (@SpartacusLives) June 17, 2020

"This is particularly egregious because both “violators” were brought to Google’s attention by an NBC reporter pushing claims from left-wing nonprofits..."https://t.co/zJIXUrbkSj

— Conservative Party Of NYS (@cpnys) June 17, 2020