Google, a major IT company, revealed that in the last year, there were about 3.1 billion online advertisements worldwide that were blocked or deleted because they contained incorrect information.
According to the announcement, Google blocked or removed about 3.1 billion online ads in the last year as violating the rules.
Over 99 million advertisements containing false information on treatments and vaccines have been prevented from spreading over the spread of the new coronavirus, and efforts are being made to prevent inappropriate advertisements in various elections such as the US presidential election. It is said to have been strengthened.
The number of advertisement deletions was 130 million in 2011, which means that the number has increased significantly in the last 10 years, partly due to improvements in monitoring technology.
In addition, it is said that fraudulent acts such as proposing a fictitious online business to cheat money from users are increasing.
In the United States, there is a big debate about how to prevent the spread of erroneous information on the Internet, and there are increasing calls for IT companies that operate SNS etc. to strengthen their countermeasures.