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Facebook charged with violating Fair Housing Act
https://www.npr.org/2019/03/28/707614254...ion-charge

"...HUD says Facebook does so by "encouraging, enabling and causing housing discrimination" when it allows companies that use their platform to improperly shield who can see certain housing ads.

In the charging document, HUD accuses Facebook of unlawfully discriminating against people based on race, religion, familial status, disability and other characteristics that closely align with the 1968 Fair House Act's protected classes.

HUD also alleges Facebook allowed advertisers certain tools on their advertising platform that could exclude people who were classified as "non-American-born," "non-Christian" or "interested in Hispanic culture," among other things. It also said advertisers could exclude people based on ZIP code, essentially "drawing a red line around those neighborhoods on a map....""
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RE: Facebook charged with violating Fair Housing Act
How progressive
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RE: Facebook charged with violating Fair Housing Act
(03-28-2019 02:44 PM)Kronke Wrote:  How progressive

Oh, they're Progressive, so long as people know where they can and can't live, and next to the anointed is a no go zone. They like them..................but over there.
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