That’s strictly not true, at least for “old media” advertising. Advertisers are selected based on being palatable for the content and the audience. It’s commo

That’s strictly not true, at least for “old media” advertising. Advertisers are selected based on being palatable for the content and the audience. It’s common for content licensing deals to has stipulations about which advertisement is acceptable. Virtually all platforms — even Google Search — has rules about the type of advertisements you see. There are of course laws that prohibit the advertising of certain types of products in certain places. Even if these scams had the money for a full page NYT article, they wouldn’t had gotten it.