Facebook charged with housing discrimination by feds

The feds charged Facebook on Thursday with violating the Fair Housing Act by “encouraging, enabling and causing” discrimination in advertising on its platforms. The charges by the Department of Housing and Urban Development come a week after the tech giant announced that it would overhaul its ad-targeting systems to tackle discrimination in housing, credit and...

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