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March 28, 2019 04:56 pm GMT
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U.S. government slams Facebook with housing discrimination charges
Hyper-specific ad targeting must have sounded like a really great idea at the time, huh? Now, Facebook is paying the price.
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) filed charges against Facebook for housing discrimination on Thursday. First reported by The Verge, the charges allege that Facebook's advertising tools violate the Fair Housing Act because they enable housing discrimination on the basis of the protected classes of race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status, or national origin.
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