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Here's the ProPublica stories that led to this

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

https://www.propublica.org/article/facebook-advertising-disc...

ProPublica really did an amazing job of sticking with this, considering that HUD knew what was happening and still dropped the investigation in 2016.

HUD Secretary at the time was Julian Castro.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Castro

Doing a quick scan of his wiki I don’t see anything relevant? Or are you trying to imply something in particular and I just missed it?

Simply pointing out the leader of the department at fault. In my humble opinion, this is useful for holding bad government actors responsible.

ProPublica does some really good investigative reporting. They are the first ones on the scene with high quality reporting on a lot of current issues. I have donated to them in the past.

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