Google Transparency Report

Earlier this year, we took important steps to increase transparency in political advertising at Google, including new requirements for any advertiser purchasing election ads on Google in the U.S. and a clear “paid for by” disclosure incorporated into any election ad. Now, we’re continuing to roll out new transparency features with a new addition to the Transparency Report, "Political advertising at Google," along with a political Ad Library.

Pursuant to requirements under Germany's NetzDG law, we have added a new section to our Transparency Report that provides data specific to certain types of content removals in Germany for YouTube and Google+. Our blog post is in German but the report also provides additional information about the law, which took effect in October 2017.

We have updated our "Government requests to remove content" report with data for the second half of 2017. During this period we received 16,610 requests to remove 221,377 pieces of content. This massive increase over the first half of 2017 is due to a set of 71 requests from Kazakhstan that cited a total of146,606 videos YouTube videos for removal!