Google, YouTube Ban at Least 300 Trump Ads for Violating Companies' Policies - Reports
Sputnik News, Dec 2, 2019

As the 2020 US election approaches, the number of concerns about political adverts on social media continues to grow. A week ago, Google stated that it would tighten regulations concerning political advertising on the company's platforms.

Google and YouTube banned at least 300 video adverts, mostly over the summer, for violating their policies, CBS 60 Minutes reported citing Google's searchable archive of political ads that have run on the site. But the archive doesn't detail what exact policy was violated.

According to 60 Minutes, the allegedly offensive adverts are not available for screening.

Susan Wojcicki continued on by saying that YouTube's algorithms don't have any concept of understanding "what's a Democrat, what's a Republican".

In the meantime, YouTube has not taken down a controversial campaign advert for US President Donald Trump that promotes misleading allegations about Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden's role in the firing of a Ukrainian prosecutor while Biden was vice president. The YouTube CEO commented on the matter, saying that despite the ad's inaccuracies, it did not violate the platform's policies.

More: https://sputniknews.com/us/2019120210774...policy-reports/

This explains it ... I used to be able to pull video ads from DuckDuckGo but can't find them even there. YouTube, in addition to Google, are banning the ads.