'We're horrified,' David Maddocks, brand president at Cole Haan, told Reuters after being notified that the company's ads appeared alongside such tweets. In one example, a promoted tweet for shoe and accessories brand Cole Haan appeared next to a tweet in which a user said they were 'trading teen/child' content. Some of tweets include key words related to 'rape' and 'teens,' and appeared alongside promoted tweets from corporate advertisers, the Reuters review found. Sept 28 (Reuters) - Some major advertisers including Dyson, Mazda, Forbes and PBS Kids have suspended their marketing campaigns or removed their ads from parts of Twitter because their promotions appeared alongside tweets soliciting child pornography, the companies told Reuters.ĭIRECTV and Thoughtworks also told Reuters late on Wednesday they have paused their advertising on Twitter.īrands ranging from Walt Disney Co (DIS.N), NBCUniversal (CMCSA.O) and Coca-Cola Co (KO.N) to a children's hospital were among more than 30 advertisers that appeared on the profile pages of Twitter accounts peddling links to the exploitative material, according to a Reuters review of accounts identified in new research about child sex abuse online from cybersecurity group Ghost Data.

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