YouTube’s climate denial dollars: How Google is breaking its promise to stop profiting from ads on climate denial videos

CCDH and the Climate Action Against Disinformation coalition found 200 videos on YouTube containing disinformation about climate change, with half of them directly breaching Google’s policy. In total, they were seen 73.8 million times.

The report found that:

• YouTube profits from ads on climate disinformation videos with tens of millions of views
• YouTube is breaking its promise not to profit from ads on climate denial content
• YouTube profits from more climate disinformation falling outside its narrow definition