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The Trump DOJ has joined a lawsuit filed by the National Fair Housing Alliance against Facebook. In a so-called statement of interest, the department suggested that Facebook could be held liable if housing providers like real estate developers and landlords used the site's targeting tools to discriminate against prospective renters and buyers in advertising their properties. Such tools limit who can see ads based on factors like sex, religion and nationality, and advertising restricted along those lines violates the Fair Housing Act.
Also at NYT, Market Watch, NPR, Washington Post.
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Justice Dept. Backs Suit Accusing Facebook of Violating Fair Housing Act
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(Score: 1) by Chromium_One on Tuesday August 21 2018, @12:38AM
No longer a neutral platform? They never were a neutral platform, they have always claimed right and responsibility to moderate member content.
Consider that they opened for public use in 2006, ToS predating that...
https://web.archive.org/web/20051126052914/http://www.facebook.com:80/terms.php [archive.org]
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