Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg announced the platform has revamped the ways it manages housing, employment and credit ads in order to combat discrimination. The changes stemmed from a settlement Facebook reached with the National Fair Housing Alliance, American Civil Liberties Union and others. Facebook will no longer allow parties that wish to run these types of ads to target individuals by age, gender or ZIP code, while it has also limited the target categories those companies can use in their ad campaigns. Facebook has created a tool to let users view all housing ads in the U.S. “Today’s changes mark an important step in our broader effort to prevent discrimination and promote fairness and inclusion on Facebook,” Sandberg wrote in a blog post. “But our work is far from over.”
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