[goatinaboat]

because advertisers that pay Google don't want their ads to appear on ZeroHedge

There’s no evidence that this was driven by advertisers, it was a unilateral decision made by Google, influenced by a taxpayer-funded British pressure group. Does that count as election meddling by a foreign power I wonder?

[klyrs]

Google has precedent for demonitizing people on the basis of their advertiser's "partisan" preferences... this one was super unpopular in the LGBT community:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/6/4/17424472/youtube-lgbt-demo...

On the balance, these decisions don't seem to be driven by radical policies from either side; they seem driven by Google's love of money.