Google ads transparency just became significantly less transparent.

”Google appears to have deleted its political ad archive for the EU; so the last 7 years of ads, of political spending, of messaging, of targeting - on YouTube, on Search and for display ads - for countless elections across 27 countries - is all gone.

We had been told that Google would try to stop people placing political ads, a "ban" that was to come into effect this week. I did not read anywhere that this would mean the erasure of this archive of our political history.”

Reported by Liz Carolan.

https://www.thebriefing.ie/google-just-erased-7-years-of-our-political-history/