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Report: Google removed voter scam ads from search results
Advertisements preying on voters proliferated in 2020 and 2022.
TTP, a research initiative of the watchdog organization Campaign for Accountability, recently tested numerous voting-related terms in Google's search engine to determine whether those inquiries led users to scam ads. In the 2020 and 2022 elections, searches for the same terms yielded scam ads, including ones that charged people fraudulent fees to register to vote or served up "a muddle of useless information," according to the report. The testing was performed on a "clean" version of the Google Chrome browser, that had been logged out and contained no prior browsing history.
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