The ad, which reportedly appeared Friday night, showed a uniformed officer with the word: “Choose your future! LAPD is hiring!”

Breitbart has garnered criticism over the years for its incendiary content, with headlines such as “The Smartest People in the World Are All Men” and “Milo: The solution to online ‘harassment’ is simple; Women should log off.”

Multiple advertisers have left the site recently.

The department has denied knowingly placing an ad on the site, telling the Los Angeles Times that such a job listing would conflict with its core values. An LAPD spokesman told Fox News the department was first alerted by its social media team.

Chief Michel Moore

✔@LAPDChiefMoore

No. LAPD did NOT purchase or otherwise acquire ad space on that website.

Senior leadership at LA City Personnel Department also relayed they did not authorize or pay for this ad either.

Both Depts s investigating whether spoof/other effort to discredit LAPD https://twitter.com/BrowningStephen/status/1177774688556027904 …

R. Stephen Browning@BrowningStephen

Replying to @Mikel_Jollett and 2 others

Everyone needs to ask their chief, @LAPDChiefMoore. Let him hear from you.

“No. LAPD did NOT purchase or otherwise acquire ad space on that website,” LAPD Chief Michel Moore tweeted Saturday.

He said the department was trying to determine whether the posting was meant to tarnish its image.

City of Los Angeles personnel department spokesman Bruce Whidden told the Times his department would buy job ads through Google on behalf of the LAPD and other city departments.

The department said Saturday it had stopped Google Ads altogether to “reexamine our ad filters and take all necessary steps to ensure tighter control of ad settings.”

Breitbart spokeswoman Elizabeth Moore issued a statement to the Times saying the company was “one of the most pro-police, pro-law-enforcement news organizations in America.”

Breitbart did not immediately respond to Fox News’ request for comment.

The crash occurred not too long after 2 p.m. on Storsandskar island after the plane left the Umea Airport, located in the northern part of the country.

Swedish airport authority Swedavia said the plane involved in the crash was a GippsAero GA8 Airvan, an Australian-made single-engine aircraft popular with parachutists.

A number of the parachutists were seen trying to jump off the plane right before it went down, witnesses told Swedish media.

“I heard a weird sound, which didn’t sound normal. I looked up and saw a plane spinning like a top,” witness Peter Larsson told the Dagens Nyheter newspaper. “At first, I thought it was an acrobatic flight, but we quickly realized that something was wrong.”

Another witness told Swedish broadcaster SVT she heard a loud noise from above before she saw the plane going straight down and crashing into the island.

All those on board on board the plane were Swedish, the BBC reported.

Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven showed “great sadness” as a result of the accident in a statement to Swedish news agency TT. He sent sincere condolences to the families of the victims and said the government would stay in close touch with officials probing the crash “as it is important to investigate the cause”.

The cause of the crash is under investigation.