Pensions minister tells Google: 'Change your ways' on scam advertising

‘Utterly unacceptable'

Jenna Brown
clock • 1 min read

Tech giants such as Google and Facebook should "take a long hard look at themselves" over online advertising paid for by financial fraudsters, the pensions minister has said.

Guy Opperman told a Work and Pensions Committee this morning (27 January) the online platforms "need to change their ways" and help stamp out pension scams. Opperman told MPs tech companies needed to stop the practice of taking money from fraudulent organisations immediately. He said the "consequential damage that is done to all our constituents is massive". He said: "Google need to take along hard look at themselves and change their ways. "We have reached a situation where the number one provider of information is not a newspaper or an encyclopaedia it is Google quite clearly and ...

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