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<\/div>Targeted Ads<\/h2>
Facebook’s massive stash of user data allows advertisers to target their ideal customers with specially-crafted messages. However, several investigations have found that Facebook helps advertisers target specific unsavory demographics, including literal neo-Nazis, according to The Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a>.<\/p> In a recent attempt to test Facebook’s advertising service, the LA Times<\/em> found that it could pay just $25 to advertise to thousands of Facebook users interested in Nazi leaders Joseph Goebbels, Heinrich Himmler, and Josef Mengele, as well as fans of Nazi music.<\/p> Every time Facebook is caught in another advertising scandal — like when Pro Publica<\/em> found in 2017<\/a> that Facebook let advertisers target “Jew haters,” when The Intercept<\/em> found in 2018 that Facebook let advertisers target “white genocide” conspiracy theorists<\/a>, and this new development by the LA Times —<\/em> the massive corporation offers a weak acknowledgment<\/a> that such things shouldn’t happen.<\/p> “Most of these targeting options are against our policies and should have been caught and removed sooner,” Facebook spokesman Joe Osborne told The LA Times<\/em>. “While we have an ongoing review of our targeting options, we clearly need to do more, so we’re taking a broader look at our policies and detection methods.”<\/p> Meanwhile, Facebook raked in $55 billion from advertising sales in 2018, according to the LA Times.<\/em><\/p> In August, Facebook announced<\/a> that it was deleting over 5,000 audience categories to prevent abuse or inappropriate uses of its advertising services. The LA Times<\/em> reports that Facebook has maintained since 2017 that human employees review every single advertising category on the site.<\/p> Apparently, literal Nazis somehow managed to make the cut.<\/p> READ MORE:<\/strong> Facebook decided which users are interested in Nazis — and let advertisers target them directly<\/a> [The Los Angeles Times<\/em>]<\/p> More on Facebook: Mark Zuckerberg Insists That Facebook Promotes Privacy<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p> The post Facebook Reportedly Let Marketers Advertise to Nazis<\/a> appeared first on Futurism<\/a>.<\/p> View original post here: Targeted Ads Facebook\u2019s massive stash of user data allows advertisers to target their\u00a0ideal customers with specially-crafted\u00a0messages. However, several investigations have found that Facebook helps advertisers target specific unsavory demographics, including literal neo-Nazis, according to The Los Angeles Times Continue reading Déjà Vu<\/h2>
Who’s Driving This Thing?<\/h2>
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