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.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday August 21 2018, @07:05AM
Not nearly my experience of what "bad posting" seems to mean to SoylentNews. Rather equivalent to "too much truthiness", so your IP block has been banned. "If you feel this decision is an error, fuck off and die you SJW libtard!"