2/ @leonyin and @asankin found that YouTube’s ad portal blocked search results for one-third of the 62 racial & social justice phrases tested.

For example: All the phrases we tested containing the word “Muslim” were blocked, even innocuous ones like Muslim fashion.
3/ Google would not comment on its blocked racial and social justice terms. But after we reached out, Google EXPANDED the block list to include ADDITIONAL terms including:

icantbreathe
black excellence
civil rights
racial justice
say her name
4/ Google now blocks 84% of the phrases on our list of social and racial justice terms – up from one-third of those on our list when we first tested in November.

Google also changed its code to preclude future investigations.
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