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Google to Ban Advertising by Payday Lenders

HeadlineMay 13, 2016

Google has announced it will ban advertising by payday lenders from its site. It’s the company’s first global ban on a whole category of financial products. Advocates argue that payday lending is an exploitative industry that traps low-income people in cycles of debt.

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