The Los Angeles Police Department was trying to figure out how one of its ads for new recruits ended up on right-wing news site Breitbart, which has been accused of posting racist content.
"The LAPD celebrates diversity and embraces it within our ranks, and within the city we serve," it said."We are aware that a recruitment advertisement has been circulated on a website that creates a negative juxtaposition to our core values."
How the advertisement ended up on Breitbart was not much of a mystery to media experts, who noted that online ad buys, particularly those made through Google, target demographics rather than publications and can even follow targeted readers from site to site. Some experts have say that sites like Breitbart can be omitted from such buys, but that advertisers have to proactively discriminate.said it was a Google ad buy that placed the recruitment graphic on Breitbart.
"The Personnel Department has not made any purchase of LAPD recruitment ads on Breitbart or similar sites," it said."Recruitment ads were purchased through Google and ended up on sites that do not reflect the City's values through automatic placement." "We have stopped these Google Ads altogether while we reexamine our ad filters and take all necessary steps to ensure tighter control of ad settings," the department said.that Breitbart has"one of the most pro-police, pro-law-enforcement news organizations in America."
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