Scientology says it’s received $5.7 million from Google in advertising grants, including CHURCHES

Scientology says it’s received $5.7 million from Google in advertising grants, including CHURCHES.

[NOTE: Related prior thread:

Google & CCHR teaming up to fight the psychs?
http://forums.whyweprotest.net/threads/google-cchr-teaming-up-to-fight-the-psychs.118057/

New thread created because Google grants are apparently not limited to CCHR, not now extends to "class v orgs around the world.']

Tony Ortega: Scientology says it’s received $5.7 million from Google in advertising grants.
http://tonyortega.org/2014/09/16/sc...from-google-in-advertising-grants/#more-16903

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Google Nonprofits Twitter:

https://twitter.com/googlenonprofit
@googlenonprofit

Google should know better than to give a criminally convicted organization and its front groups $5.7 mil worth of free advertising.

EDITED TO ADD:

Google Nonprofits Twitter:

https://twitter.com/googlenonprofit
@googlenonprofit

just when I think we are gaining speed, something asinine like this blind sides us.
HOW? WHY?
KCET still going forward too?
*shakes head*

"In 2014, Google gave about $6 million in free advertising to the Church of Scientology, an activist for the church has claimed. Few people noticed the move at the time: The information resurfaced a few days ago on Hacker News, a technology news aggregator, under a headline that said, "Scientology says it's received $5.7M from Google in ad grants.""

http://www.businessinsider.com/scie...-million-in-free-advertising-2016-1?r=UK&IR=T

AUDIO: Hear Scientology boast about the $5.7 million it got from Google in free ads

http://tonyortega.org/2016/01/07/au...the-5-million-it-got-from-google-in-free-ads/

Actually all of this free advertising may not be such a bad thing.

Clearly, it has not had the intended effect of bringing in "raw meat" since the orgs, be their regular or ideal, sit mostly empty. Rather I would speculate that all of the scientology ads have drawn attention to critical works, such as Going Clear, or Leah Remini's Troublemaker. When people are curious the first place they look to for information is the internet. Lol.



The scientology corporation has lost both the media war and the information war. We see this with the thousands of news articles that have exposed the cult over the past 8 years, and in the online comment sections of those articles where people have figured out that scientology is not just a weird Hollywood UFO cult, but an abusive company that defrauds its customers and the public.

This is absoloutely unacceptable!!! Im ashamed of google.

Stop using it you fucking twat.