Even YouTube's own ads are shown against extremist content
Google-owned video site YouTube has come under fire as its own advertising content has been shown alongside extremist or insensitive material. This comes after major brands, including Pepsi, AT&T and Johnson & Johnson, suspended their ads over the scandal. On Friday 24 March, Wall Street Journal reporter Jack Nicas tweeted a screenshot of an ad for a YouTube Red original film which had appeared before an offensive user-submitted video. The company is now looking at community guidelines to "determine what should be allowed on the platform, not just what content can be monetized", according to Chief Business Officer, Philipp Schindler. 

To cap off a week of companies like AT&T, Verizon and Johnson & Johnson pulling their ad dollars from YouTube due to placement around offensive videos on the platform, it was shown today that not even YouTube’s own brand is safe from the problem.