revealed something shocking. facebook allowed advertisers to target quote jew haters among other anti-semitic categories. somebody sent me a screen shot of the ad-buying platform with the words jew hater and showed that you could buy them. and i thought it was probably a hoax, so i went online and looked and it did seem to be there. but then i thought, well, it s probably a bug. so i ll try to buy one and it won t go through, but then i bought one and it went through, bought another one, it went through, then bought a third one and it went through. and i called facebook and said, why are you selling the ability to target your ads at jew-haters. good question. last year propublica successfully submitted an ad to facebook s housing categories that included a request that the ad not be shown to african-american, asian-american, or hispanic people. the revelation that people could essentially target their ads to whites only wasn t just a black eye for facebook, it was an
revealed something shocking. facebook allowed advertisers to target quote jew haters among other anti-semitic categories. somebody sent me a screen shot of the ad-buying platform with the words jew hater and showed that you could buy them. and i thought it was probably a hoax, so i went online and looked and it did seem to be there. but then i thought, well, it s probably a bug. so i ll try to buy one and it won t go through, but then i bought unaone and it went throu bought another one, it went through, then bought a third one and it went through. and i called facebook and said, why are you selling the ability to target your ads at jew-haters. good question. last year propublica successfully submitted an ad to facebook s housing categories that included a request that the ad not be shown to african-american, asian-american, or hispanic people. the revelation that people could essentially target their ads to whites only wasn t just a black