Ads for housing that exclude demographics are still being approved by Facebook, a year after a study highlighted the illegal discriminatory practice on Facebook
Why There's Nothing to Fear With the End of Net Neutrality Richard Nieva / CNET : Facebook still allowing discriminatory housing ads Cale Guthrie Weissman / Fast Company : Facebook's ad platform still lets users discriminate against protected minorities Ellen Tannam / Silicon Republic : Facebook admits anti-discrimination advertising policy isn't working Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch : Facebook's ad system shown failing to enforce its own anti-discriminatory policy Nick Statt / The Verge : Facebook continues to let advertisers racially discriminate in housing ads Patrick Kulp / Mashable : Facebook still hasn't fixed its discriminatory ad problems, despite many promises Selena Larson / CNNMoney : Discriminatory ads still get through on Facebook, investigation finds Matt Novak / Gizmodo : Facebook Still Lets Landlords Discriminate by Race and Disability in Apartment Ads Rob Beschizza / Boing Boing : Facebook still allows housing ads to discriminate by race Jessica Guynn / USA Today : Facebook is still allowing discriminatory housing ads that exclude users by race Michelle Castillo / CNBC : Facebook allowed the buying of illegal housing ads months after it said it fixed the problem: Report Tweets: @om : This is not a bug, it's a feature of Facebook. I bet they never revert from it, otherwise the hyper-targeting ad model doesn't work. http://twitter.com/... Internet Ethics / @iethics : “The only changes... we could identify in #Facebook's ad buying system was that the category called ‘Ethnic Affinity’ had been renamed ‘Multicultural Affinity’ and... is now designated as part of ‘Behaviors.’ Our ad was approved within minutes”: http://www.propublica.org/... #ethics Adriana Gallardo / @otraletra : Last week, ProPublica bought dozens of rental housing ads on Facebook, but asked that *they not be shown to* certain categories of users such as: -African Americans -people interested in wheelchair ramps -Jews The ads were approved. https://twitter.com/... David Carroll / @profcarroll : Another day, another dollar, another PR disaster for Facebook. https://twitter.com/... Julia Angwin / @juliaangwin : On Facebook, the lines are blue but the effect is the same as redlining: http://www.propublica.org/... http://twitter.com/... Julia Angwin / @juliaangwin : Last year I wrote about how Facebook let housing advertisers discriminate by race: https://www.propublica.org/... Today: turns out Facebook didn't fix it, despite its promises. https://www.propublica.org/... Mike Rosenberg / @byrosenberg : Facebook approved ads that prevented blacks, Jews, the disabled, Spanish-speaking people and others from seeing open apartments - and didn't spend more than 2 minutes approving the ads. That's illegal under federal law http://www.propublica.org/... @propublica : 9/ This is a housing ad that excludes many types of Jews. It was approved within a minute or two. pic.twitter.com/fjhUEiEYku @propublica : 8/ This is a housing ad that excludes “expats” from Guatemala, Mexico, Argentina, and Puerto Rico. It was approved in about a minute. pic.twitter.com/4rsZ2NgJpQ Pierre Omidyar / @pierre : More than one year after initially reported, the company's algorithms are still not correctly enforcing their stated policies. https://twitter.com/... Richard Tofel / @dicktofel : Remember back in February when Facebook said this would stop? It hasn't https://www.propublica.org/... See also Mediagazer