Facebook
still hasn't fixed its
discriminatory ad
problems, despite many promises
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Facebook's been promising to fix discrimination problems with its ads platform ever since a
Pro Publica report last fall found that its targeting tools had the potential to violate civil rights laws.
A year later, those efforts don't seem to have amounted to much.*
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A
follow-up investigation from the
Pro Publica on Tuesday found that
Facebook still approved housing ads that excluded users based on their religion, gender, or "multicultural affinity" (Facebook's thinly veiled stand-in for race which was previously called "ethnic affinity"). Each of those demographics are considered protected groups under the Fair Housing Act.
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