HUD Launches Another Facebook Investigation Over Housing Ads
HUD Launches Another Facebook Investigation After Receiving More Complaints About Discriminatory Housing Ads
HUD announced they are launching another Facebook investigation about real estate ads. The agency launched a Facebook investigation last year but halted it earlier this year. However, new information has come to light.
HUD Secretary Ben Carson’s office issued the following statement:
The investigation began was in response to a ProPublica article in October 2016. Reporters Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr. found Facebook gave advertisers the ability to exclude certain ethnic groups from seeing the ads.
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