{"id":8002,"date":"2019-04-04T17:23:34","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T17:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialpanic.org\/?p=8002"},"modified":"2024-12-14T04:07:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T04:07:58","slug":"facebook-targets-ads-based-on-race-and-gender-stereotypes-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2019\/04\/04\/facebook-targets-ads-based-on-race-and-gender-stereotypes-study\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Facebook targets ads based on race and gender stereotypes: Study&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u201cWe stand against discrimination in any form,\u201d the spokesperson said. \u201cWe\u2019ve announced important changes to our ad targeting tools and know that this is only a first step. We\u2019ve been looking at our ad delivery system and have engaged industry leaders, academics and civil rights experts on this very topic \u2013 and we\u2019re exploring more changes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2019\/04\/04\/facebook-targets-ads-based-on-race-and-gender-stereotypes-study.html\">Facebook targets ads based on race and gender stereotypes: Study<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facebook&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commerce.senate.gov\/public\/_cache\/files\/ed0185fb-615a-4fd5-818b-5ce050825a9b\/62027BC70720678CBC934C93214B0871.senate-judiciary-combined-7-.pdf\">Congressional testimony<\/a>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2018\/06\/12\/facebook-admits-they-support-age-and-gender-discrimination-in-advertising\/\">&#8220;Like other major ad platforms, we enable targeting based on age and gender.<\/a> &#8220;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Facebook continues to support age and gender discrimination in advertising, which they were <a href=\"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2017\/12\/24\/us-firms-use-social-media-age-based-ad-targeting-to-discriminate-against-older-workers\/\">caught doing back in 2017<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><blockquote><p>Verizon targeted showed ads only to those age 25 to 36 years old<\/p><\/blockquote><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><blockquote><p>UPS targeted age 19 to 35<\/p><\/blockquote><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><blockquote><p>State Farm targeted age 19 to 35<\/p><\/blockquote><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Health care employers ran ads based on sex, targeting female nurses (nursing is 90% female) and using ad tactics that may avoid reaching men. Employers can also use social media targeted advertising to intentionally reach \u2013 or discriminate against \u2013 ethnic and minority groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Facebook says age-based job ads are justified and does not plan to stop the practice by employers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook continues to claim they oppose discrimination in all forms, in spite of mountains of evidence showing they continue to discriminate based on age, gender and other attributes in their ad platform.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,6,26,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advertising","category-business","category-lies","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002","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=8002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}