聖戰網站藉助谷歌廣告平臺獲利
An Islamist extremist accused of funding the 2009 Jakarta suicide bombings has been selling advertising space on his website to international brands including Citigroup, IBM and Microsoft using a service provided by Google.
一名被控爲2009年雅加達自殺式炸彈襲擊提供資金的伊斯蘭極端分子，利用由谷歌(Google)提供的一種服務，一直在自己的網站上向包括花旗集團(Citigroup)、IBM和微軟(Microsoft)在內的國際品牌出售廣告位。
Muhammad Jibril Abdul Rahman, known as Prince of Jihad, is designated as a terrorist on the sanctions lists of the US, the EU and the UN — and subject to an asset freeze, travel ban and arms embargo. He is a prominent member of Jemaah Islamiyah, a militant Islamist group based in Southeast Asia with ties to al-Qaeda.
有“聖戰王子”(Prince of Jihad)之稱的穆罕默德•賈布里勒•阿卜杜勒•拉赫曼（Muhammad Jibril Abdul Rahman，上圖）被列在美國、歐盟和聯合國的制裁名單上，性質是恐怖分子，受到資產凍結、旅行禁令並被禁止攜帶武器。他還是東南亞一個與基地組織(al-Qaeda)有關聯的伊斯蘭激進組織“伊斯蘭祈禱團”(Jemah Islamiyah)的重要成員。
But his Jihadi propaganda website, , has been making thousands of dollars by showing its visitors adverts from global companies.
但是，他的聖戰宣傳網站一直在通過向訪問者展示跨國公司的廣告幾千美元幾千美元地賺錢。
The ads were delivered to the website, which includes images of beheadings and hanged men, by intermediaries including Google’s AdSense, the world’s biggest online ad network, which take a cut of the revenues.
這些廣告被通過谷歌的AdSense等媒介投放到這個含有斬首和絞刑圖片的網站上。AdSense是全球最大的在線廣告網絡，從廣告收入中抽取分成。
There is no suggestion that the advertisers or Google knowingly funded a designated terrorist, a criminal offence in the US that carries a penalty of up to 20 years in prison or a $1m fine.
沒有任何依據表明廣告主或谷歌有意讓一個恐怖分子獲得資金，這在美國屬於刑事犯罪，最高會被判處20年監禁或100萬美元罰款。
After being contacted by the Financial Times, Google cancelled ’s account and the advertisers asked to be removed from the site. However, ads for big western brands continue to appear on the site through other intermediaries.
在英國《金融時報》記者與他們聯繫後，谷歌刪除了的賬戶，各廣告主要求從該網站上移除廣告。然而，西方大品牌的廣告仍然通過其他媒介出現在該網站上。
The ease with which tapped into the $160bn online ad market raises questions about whether advertisers and their intermediaries are properly scrutinising the websites with which they do business. These days the placement of online ads is highly automated and they often pass through a complex chain with little human oversight.
可以輕易進入價值1600億美元的在線廣告市場，令人不由產生疑問：廣告主及媒介是否對它們要投放廣告的網站進行了恰當的審查？如今，在線廣告的投放高度自動化，往往在幾乎無人監督的情況下完成複雜的流程。
This is not the first time that brands running ad campaigns across tens of thousands of different websites have found them appearing on undesirable sites. The UK police have in recent years cracked down on ad-supported sites that allow users to illegally download pirated films and music.
在成千上萬的不同網站上做廣告的品牌發現自己出現在不良網站上的事情已經不是第一次發生了。英國警方近年就嚴厲打擊允許用戶非法下載盜版電影和音樂、依靠廣告支持的網站。
Google said: “We take the quality of our network very seriously and invest significant time and resources to keeping bad actors out of our system. We also have strict policies and terms of use which govern the type of publishers we allow on AdSense.
谷歌表示：“我們十分重視我們網絡的質量，並投入大量時間和資源來將不良網站排除在我們的系統之外。我們也制定有嚴格的政策和使用條款，對我們允許登錄AdSense的發行者類型進行規範。
“This site violates our terms so we’ve taken action to terminate the account and reimburse affected advertisers.”
“該網站違反了我們的條款，因此我們已經採取行動終止了該賬戶，並補償受到影響的廣告主。“
The company did not disclose the amount of the reimbursement.
谷歌並未透露具體的補償金額。
— whose slogan is “filter your mind, get the truth” — also illustrates the increasing sophistication of Islamist propaganda organisations and the expanding range of funding sources they have been able to tap. Large technology groups including Google, Twitter and Facebook have come in for criticism by security services in recent years for not doing enough to keep extremists off their platforms.
的口號是“淨化你的心靈，得到真相”(filter your mind, get the truth)，從該網站可以看出，伊斯蘭宣傳組織日益複雜化，它們可以利用的資金來源不斷擴大。近年來，包括谷歌、Twitter和Facebook在內的大型科技集團受到了安全部門的批評，理由是沒有采取足夠有力的措施阻止極端分子使用它們的平臺。
The website, which promotes extremist views in sections such as “Jihad Zone”, attracts about 600,000 visits a month, according to SimilarWeb, an internet data provider. discloses prominently that Mr Abdul Rahman is its chief executive.
該網站在“聖戰區”等欄目宣傳極端主義觀點。據互聯網數據提供商SimilarWeb統計，該網站每月訪問量約爲60萬次。明確公示阿卜杜勒•拉赫曼是其首席執行官。
“He is the most important online terrorist in Southeast Asia,” said Rohan Gunaratna, head of the International Centre for Political Violence and Terrorism Research at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. “The purpose of his site is to polarise and radicalise people so that they become ripe for recruitment.”
“他是東南亞地區最重要的網絡恐怖分子，”新加坡南洋理工大學(Nanyang Technological University)政治暴力與恐怖主義研究國際中心的負責人羅漢•古納拉特納(Rohan Gunaratna)稱，“其網站的目的是讓人們變得極端和激進，變得適合招募。”
In 2010, Mr Abdul Rahman was sentenced to five years in an Indonesian jail for concealing information related to the terrorist attacks at the JW Marriott and Ritz-Carlton hotels in Jakarta, which killed seven people and injured about 50. He had arranged for $10,000 in cash to be passed to the main bomber, according to the US government.
2010年，阿卜杜勒•拉赫曼因隱瞞與發生在雅加達JW萬豪酒店(JW Marriott)和麗思卡爾頓酒店(Ritz-Carlton)的恐怖襲擊相關的信息，被判處在印度尼西亞一所監獄服刑5年。那次恐怖襲擊造成了7人遇難，約50人受傷。根據美國政府的信息，他準備了1萬美元現金要轉交給炸彈襲擊的主犯。
Citigroup said: “We have a number of policies and procedures in place for our vendors designed to help prevent our advertising from appearing on inappropriate sites. In this case we have acted quickly to rectify the issue and have taken steps to ensure our ads will not appear on this site in the future.”
花旗集團表示：“我們針對廣告代理商有許多政策和流程，旨在防止我們的廣告出現在不合適的網站上。在此次事件中，我們迅速採取行動糾正了問題，並且採取了措施以保證未來我們的廣告不會再出現在該網站上。”
IBM said that it was “looking into the matter and will take all measures with its agency buying partners to prevent recurrence”.
IBM稱“正在調查此事，並將與媒體購買合作伙伴一道採取一切措施防止再次發生這種情況”。
Microsoft said: “The advertisement was placed using a third-party automated online media buying process and has now been removed. We’re working with our media buying partners to identify additional safeguards to further reduce the potential for ad placement on inappropriate sites.”
微軟稱：“該廣告是利用第三方自動化在線媒體購買流程進行投放的，現在已經被移除。我們正在與媒體購買合作伙伴一起制定額外的防護措施，以進一步減少廣告被投放在不合適網站的可能性。”
An industry insider who has been gathering data about for the Financial Times estimated that the site was making thousands of dollars per month based on its ad traffic, and potentially more.
一名爲英國《金融時報》收集有關信息的業內人士估計，以其廣告流量計算，該網站每個月獲利數千美元，甚至可能更多。
