AT&T pulls ads from YouTube, other Google sites

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"We are deeply concerned that our ads may have appeared alongside YouTube content promoting terrorism and hate," the company said in an email. AT&Ts decision comes days after British retail giant Marks & Spencer removed its ads from all of Googles platforms. The companies joined growing cohort shunning YouTube, including the UK government as well as McDonalds, LOreal, Audi, the BBC and the Guardian. For this, we deeply apologize," Philipp Schindler, Googles chief business officer, wrote in a blog post. The Times in the UK found that hundreds of companies had ads appearing next to videos created by hate groups or their supporters.

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