Google greenlights ads with ‘blatant disinformation’ about voting by mail

Google has declined to remove ads from a shadowy group echoing President Trump’s misleading claim that there is a meaningful difference between voting by mail and absentee voting.

Google took five days to reach its decision to leave the ads in place, alarming voting rights advocates as well as researchers in the University of Washington’s Human Centered Design and Engineering department who had alerted Google to the ads last week.

“This is active and blatant disinformation,” said Himanshu Zade, a doctoral student in the department. “I don’t think there’s any...