These Are the Job Ads You Cant See on Facebook If Youre Older

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By Jeff Larson, Madeleine Varner, Ariana Tobin and Julia Angwin, ProPublica, and Noam Scheiber, The New York Times, December 19, 2017

It is against the law to discriminate against workers older than 40 in hiring and recruitment. But using material provided by our readers through a ProPublica crowd-sourcing effort, we found dozens of companies who bought Facebook ads aimed at recruiting workers within limited age ranges. Some companies said these ads were not representative of their wider recruitment strategies. Others said targeting workers by age was a mistake, and vowed to stop doing it. To see the ads and each company’s response, click on the company names below. To join our crowd-sourcing effort, download our tool for Firefox or Google Chrome. Related Story »


http://projects.propublica.org/graphics/facebook-job-ads


Time for a fucking boycott

[LonePirate]

1. Wow! There are a lot of companies in that list, including Facebook itself.

[Squinch]

2. I'm not on Facebook. I really don't get the appeal. And these days it seems to me to

be nothing but destructive.

Is knowing what your friend put on their waffles this morning worth becoming Putin's drone and losing the Republic? Is it worth the loss of your right to privacy?

And now this?

[Dr Hobbitstein]

3. A boycot of what?

Ads delivered via demographics? That's how online advertising works.

Blame the job advertisers who are setting an age demographic.