The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has pulled its commercials from YouTube after the Google-owned company allowed its advertising to be shown alongside videos of extremists.
An investigation by The Times found the regulator's adverts were placed alongside Steven Anderson's YouTube videos, a pastor who praised the killing of 49 people at a gay nightclub in Florida and who was banned from entering Britain after "repeatedly" calling homosexuals "sodomites, queers and faggots". The Times also claimed many more taxpayer-funded bodies have had their adverts placed next to videos by extremists, de facto funding extremists on the online video site. These included Channel 4, Visit Scotland, the Home Office, the BBC and more. A YouTube user typically earns about $7...
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