{"id":7990,"date":"2019-03-28T17:28:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-28T17:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=7990"},"modified":"2019-03-28T17:28:17","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T17:28:17","slug":"u-s-government-accuses-facebook-of-enabling-discrimination-in-housing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2019\/03\/28\/u-s-government-accuses-facebook-of-enabling-discrimination-in-housing\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. government accuses Facebook of enabling discrimination in housing"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In the charging document, HUD accuses Facebook of unlawfully discriminating against people based on race, religion, familial status, disability and other characteristics that closely align with the 1968 Fair House Act&#8217;s protected classes.<\/p>\n<p>HUD also alleges Facebook allowed advertisers certain tools on their advertising platform that could exclude people who were classified as &#8220;non-American-born,&#8221; &#8220;non-Christian&#8221; or &#8220;interested in Hispanic culture,&#8221; among other things. It also said advertisers could exclude people based on ZIP code, essentially &#8220;drawing a red line around those neighborhoods on a map.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2019\/03\/28\/707614254\/hud-slaps-facebook-with-housing-discrimination-charge\">Housing Department Slaps Facebook With Discrimination Charge : NPR<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook&#8217;s advertising tools enabled advertising to target potential housing customers by &#8220;race, religion, familial status, disability&#8221; in order to exclude members of protected classes from renting or buying property.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}