Facing a barrage of criticism in the wake of an Examiner report that Google had blocked negative ads at its request, MoveOn.org backed down earlier this week, withdrawing its claim of trademark infringement and renouncing the Google policy it had exploited to preemptively block the ads.
The ads, critical of the “General Betray Us” message MoveOn placed in The New York Times last month, were placed by the campaign of Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine.
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