HSBC, Lloyds and RBS halt advertising on Google amid hate-funding row

HSBC, Lloyds and Royal Bank of Scotland have become the latest brands to pull advertising from Google after a Times investigation this week revealed they had been inadvertently funding hate speech videos on YouTube.
The latest revelation from The Times found that some of the world’s largest brands, ranging from HSBC, The Guardian and Sainsbury’s, as well as publicly-funded organisations like Transport for London and the BBC, had been advertising against hate preachers, anti-semites a