March 19, 2019
Facebook on Tuesday settled a series of lawsuits alleging it enabled advertisers to illegally exclude certain users from seeing their job, housing and credit ads, with the tech giant agreeing to overhaul its platform to limit those ads from being targeted toward cherry-picked users in a discriminatory way.
August 17, 2018
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has hit Facebook Inc. with an administrative complaint that accuses the social media giant of using discriminatory advertising practices to target home buyers, according to New York federal court documents filed Friday in a related lawsuit.
June 05, 2018
Facebook asked a New York federal judge Monday to send to California litigation accusing it of enabling discrimination by letting advertisers exclude people from seeing home listings based on selected attributes, saying the users agreed to resolve claims in the Golden State and a similar suit is already pending there.
March 27, 2018
Facebook Inc. lets advertisers exclude people from seeing listings for homes to buy and rent, violating the Fair Housing Act by permitting sellers to discriminate against protected groups based on family status, gender and other attributes, a group of housing advocacy organizations said in a suit filed Tuesday in New York federal court.