Trump administration charges Facebook with housing discrimination

[DonViejo]

By PATRICK TEMPLE-WEST 08/17/2018 05:40 PM EDT Updated 08/17/2018 08:34 PM EDT

The Trump administration today charged Facebook Inc. with violating housing discrimination laws.

The social media company allows advertisers to divert housing listings away users who mention terms such as “assistance dog” and “mobility scooter,” or who live in certain zip codes, in violation of the Fair Housing Act, HUD alleged.

In addition, the Justice Department today joined a lawsuit against Facebook, saying in a “statement of interest” that the company discriminates by helping advertisers pick preferred users.

The Fair Housing Act prohibits discrimination in housing transactions, including print and online advertising, on the basis of race, religion or sex, among other things. Facebook allows advertisers to pinpoint certain potential tenants or homebuyers while filtering out others, HUD alleges.

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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/17/facebook-trump-administration-housing-discrimination-786302

[Iliyah]

1. GOPers want total control over social media.

GOP house - twitter

WH - FB

[MichMan]

2. So you side against stopping housing discrimination for the disabled in advertising? wow

"The social media company allows advertisers to divert housing listings away users who mention terms such as “assistance dog” and “mobility scooter,” or who live in certain zip codes, in violation of the Fair Housing Act, HUD alleged."


And you somehow support a continuation of these practices ?

[maxrandb]

3. Umm, I think if anyone in the United States

thinks that this misadministration gives one fuck about "fair housing" they're either a moron, or a Russian Troll Bot.

Is that you comrade?

[hughee99]

6. If Facebook is violating the fair housing act,

We’ll have to wait until 2021 to do anything about it. All government functions under this administration are nefarious attempts control everything, and can’t even accidentally be for legitimate purposes. I hear they’re even bribing retirees and disabled people with monthly checks.

[Initech]

4. They want total control over everything!

We being run by a bunch of whiny crybabies right now.

[Ms. Toad]

8. My spouse, the former Executive Director of a Fair Housing Advocacy group

has brought numerous claims against newspapers and other advertising venues for the same thing. It is a violation of fair housing law to accepted advertisements targeting individuals in a protected class.

Not everything is evil, just because it is initiated by the Trump administration.

We ought to be better than the Trump administration - which opposes things merely because Obama favored them.

[uponit7771]

5. There's no Department in red Don's admin I trust

[backtoblue]

7. So now they oppose targeted advertising?

Cambridge Analytica anyone?

Bizarre times we exist...