Facebook's ad platform enables housing discrimination, HUD lawsuit says
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Facebook allows advertisers to exclude people from seeing housing ads based on their race, religion, background and other characteristics, a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development says.
The social media giant’s practices amount to housing discrimination under the Fair Housing Act, according to the suit filed Thursday. The 1968 act makes it illegal to discriminate against someone renting or buying a home based on their race, color, national origin, religion, sex, family status or disability.
Facebook said it was surprised by the decision from HUD, and noted that it has already been working with the department to address its concerns. It says it has already eliminated thousands of targeting options that could be subject to misuse.
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