In February, Facebook had promised a strengthening of the control of advertisements, to real estate, to ensure that they do not show discriminate by not targeting, for example, that users white of the social network or by excluding muslims.
And yet, the news site Propublica announced Tuesday, November 21, have managed to put online on Facebook, without any difficulty, dozens of advertising real estate of this type. The journalists have set up advertising campaigns so as to exclude certain categories, ” such as African Americans, mothers with high school students, people who are interested in wheelchairs, jews, expatriates from Argentina and the Spanish-speaking “, they write.
