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#Facebook will disable their features for ads that discriminate based on age, sex, ethnicity and 5,000 other factors

Facebook’s ad system was intentionally designed for advertisers to discriminate based on age, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, language spoken and so on. They defended it because, you know, everyone does it.

But lawsuits and a Federal investigation have changed their thinking and they will disable their networks age, sex, gender, sex orientation, ethnic, national origin, and so on, discrimination features.

Facebook to end their ad discrimination practices, sort of-they still support age discrimination in job ads

Facebook will be legally required to end its practice of allowing businesses to block certain groups like blacks, gays and immigrants from viewing ads under an agreement reached with the Washington State Attorney General’s Office. Source: Facebook makes deal with Washington AG to halt discriminatory ads | The Columbian The agreement DOES NOT address the use of FB to target job ads based on age, thereby legally discriminating against older workers by ensuring older workers never see job ads. Major…

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#Facebook reads everything you send to other people on #Messenger #DeleteFacebook

Facebook Inc. scans the chats and images that people send each other on Facebook Messenger, making sure it all abides by the company’s rules governing content. If it doesn’t, it gets blocked. Source: Facebook Scans What You Send Other People on Messenger App – Bloomberg I used the word “reads” because these are not simple keyword scans but machine-learning systems that are the machine equivalent of reading your emails and taking notes. This further confirms that Facebook is a global…

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#Facebook “archive downloads” often incomplete, missing data FB still holds #DeleteFacebook

Many people report missing data in their archive. This problem has existed since 2012. In my own archive, most of the posted photos are missing although they can be downloaded by going to the Photos tab online and downloading each photo album. (Have since done that and deleted all of my FB albums.) I also found that when looking at the “messages” sent privately between parties, sometimes parts of the exchange are missing. Something like this: BL: 10:30pm <text of…

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