I thought this was old news. Weren't they being accused of showing certain results to a certain demographic because the advertisers got to call the shots on who saw the ads?
This is them getting charged. I think there is a distinction. Now lawyers are involved.
Not OK for housing/rental ads, credit/mortgage, etc. Facebook should have known better from the start and never enabled that kind of targeting for those types of ads.
I was just saying the headline sounds like old news when it’s not.
The goal of most advertising is to change your consumer behaviors regardless of what best for the consumer. In my opinion it's a huge net negative on society.
If only Facebook has some money it wasn't using, it could hire a bunch of lawyers to look at its products and processes to make sure they are legal and ethical and lawful. Some kind of a team of lawyers. They could even made it a department of some sort.
"Move fast and break laws."