Clearly that the newspaper company had received a contract of more than 400 million yen to write articles favorable to Google and Uber

He is the former Finance Minister of the UKGeorge OsbourneThe evening paper "Evening Standard" in London, who will serve as editor in chief, will post a total of 3 million pounds (about 430 million yen) advantageous to the company to six major companies including Google · Uber etc. It has sold the "independent authority of editing" with a contract to write, openDemocracy reports.

George Osborne's London Evening Standard sells its editorial independence to Uber, Google and others - for £ 3 million | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/uk/james-cusick/george-osborne-s-london-evening-standard-promises-positive-news-coverage-to-uber-goo

Evening standard boasts nearly 900,000 circulation circulation, it is the evening newspaper which is widely read mainly in London. According to openDemocracy, this project was called London 2020, and was edited by editor-in-chief George Osborn and led by Mr. George Osborn. George Osborn was known for serving as the Minister of Finance under the Cameron administration, he resigned from the Diet in 2017 and became the topic of being an editor in the evening standard.

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Originally in the UK newspaper, "native ads" created according to the style of the newspaper unique are often adopted, but this project is "Ethical delineation that distinguished news and advertisements posted on the evening standard We will remove all of them and incorporate news coverage for companies involved. " However, openDemocracy points out that readers can not distinguish between paid news and other commercial content by removing the border between normal articles that are hard to distinguish even from simple native advertisements.

OpenDemocracy reports that six companies that paid £ 500,000 (about 72 million yen) to the evening standard also include Uber, a vehicle deployment service. BlackRock, an asset management company that invests 500 million pounds (about 72 billion yen) in Uber, invites Mr. Osborne as an adviser. openDemocracy criticized Uber and Evening Standard's contract as a conflict of interest because BlackRock pays Ozbourn £ 650,000 a year (approximately 94 million yen) for a weekly adviser It is.

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Also Google, which paid £ 500,000, was Mr. Osborne served as Minister of FinanceI had a close relationship with Cameron's administrationI was criticized more than once.

In addition, several companies including Starbucks coffee refused to pay that some companies including "Starbucks coffee" have their own propaganda strategy against the promotional strategy of "evening standard" customized news and comments " Thing. openDemocracy seems to have requested evening standards, Uber and Google comments on the London 2020 project, but it seems that there was no response from either.