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Amazon And Nike Are Among Major Brands Advertising On Websites That Spread COVID-19 Misinformation, Report Says 메이저사이트

Significant organizations and brands including Amazon, Nike, Ted Baker, and Asos, have been discovered promoting on sites that spread COVID-19 deception, The Observer and The Bureau of Investigative Journalism detailed. 

The Bureau's examination, which was imparted to The Observer, zeroed in on 60 locales and traversed three months. Advertisements for some, easily recognized names - both in the US and UK - included on such locales, it found. 

The organizations whose advertisements were shown seem to have accidentally helped store destinations that spread bogus COVID-19 data, The Observer added. 

Advertisements for Amazon administrations were found on in excess of 30 destinations that appropriated counterfeit news, including ones making ridiculous cases about Bill Gates, as per The Observer. The Microsoft fellow benefactor has consistently been the subject of immunization paranoid ideas. 

Amazon and Nike didn't promptly react to Insider's solicitation for input. 

As per the report, Honda, Walgreens, and eBay were likewise among those whose advertisements were found on deception spreading locales. 

A representative for American Honda disclosed to The Observer: "We are at present attempting to decide how our promoting might have showed up on the sites being referred to. We could never uphold Covid deception or purposely permit our publicizing on such sites." 

The examination tracked down that the promotions were being put through the "murky by plan" computerized publicizing market, which is assessed to be worth more than $455 billion this year. 

Indeed, even before these disclosures surfaced, Amazon was confronting examination corresponding to COVID-19 deception. 

Books about trick COVID-19 fixes and hostile to immunization claims are oftentimes included as top merchants on the advanced retailer's site. Thus, US administrators are exploring the issue, Insider's Bethany Dawson revealed.