Facebook stops advertisers illegally discriminating by race

[umbertino]

Social network will still allow targeting based on ‘ethnic affinity’ of users in domains other than housing, employment and credit

Alex Hern

Thursday 9 February 2017 09.57 GMT

The move follows accusations that the social network offered tools that allow advertisers to break American anti-discrimination laws.

Photograph: Regis Duvignau/Reuters

 

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/09/facebook-stops-advertisers-illegal-discriminating-race

[bostonangler]

Talk about The Swamp... Social media is a cesspool for people who have no life of their own... Why anyone participates in that crap is beyond me. Well other than right here at DV..

B/A

[umbertino]

I'm not in Facebook myself but I respect whomever is in it...It's a choice