The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) website is promoting a campaign by ‘Refugees Welcome’ – a group encouraging Europeans to offer their spare rooms to migrants – by using advertising to target anti-immigration YouTube videos… on YouTube. Refugees Welcome has paid for pro-migrant adverts to play before videos tagged with keywords and phrases associated with scepticism of Germany’s open door policy to migrants, such as “refugees out” and “the truth about refugees”. The “pre roll”, 30 second adverts, which the organisation says can’t cannot be skipped, feature migrants speaking out against stereotypes they say are false, such as their being lazy, dangerous, or economic migrants. In one, a man called Arif condemns fears of migrants being criminal. Comparing his own lack of criminal record to Lutz Bachmann, founder of Patriotic Europeans Against the Islamisation of the West (Pegida), who has convictions for drug dealing and drunk driving, the Syrian implies that people with concerns about unsustainably high levels of immigration are more likely to be criminal than migrants. Clicking on the ads redirects users to a website, which operates in English, German and Arabic, with more information about the migrants’ stories. As well as the full collection of 30 second adverts, the website features a longer video. The