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> Caucasians are a category that can be selected from that list too, right?

Not according to Gruber[1]:

UPDATE: Their filter lets you screen out Asian-Americans, African-Americans, and Hispanics, but it doesn’t let you screen out white people? How did anyone at Facebook think this was a good idea?

[1]https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-lets-advertisers...

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I don't use FB (privacy concerns and commercialization of human beings) so give the interested source benefit of the doubt.

So FB has made an oversight. The engineers and designers should do the politically correct thing here and add white people as a category. Most importantly, the special creams advertisers...

That doesn't really solve the problem of them explicitly creating a platform for discriminatory advertising.

This is also the sort of thing where I have to ask, how many people of color were apart of the design and implementation of this functionality?

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