Posted on 09/14/2017 8:30:47 PM PDT by a fool in paradise
...(the) social network enabled advertisers to direct their pitches to the news feeds of almost 2,300 people who expressed interest in the topics of “Jew hater,” “How to burn jews,” or, “History of ‘why jews ruin the world.’”
To test if these ad categories were real, we paid $30 to target those groups with three “promoted posts” — in which a ProPublica article or post was displayed in their news feeds. Facebook approved all three ads within 15 minutes.
After we contacted Facebook, it removed the anti-Semitic categories — which were created by an algorithm rather than by people — and said it would explore ways to fix the problem, such as limiting the number of categories available or scrutinizing them before they are displayed to buyers.
“There are times where content is surfaced on our platform that violates our standards,” said Rob Leathern, product management director at Facebook. “In this case, we’ve removed the associated targeting fields in question. We know we have more work to do, so we’re also building new guardrails in our product and review processes to prevent other issues like this from happening in the future.”
...Facebook’s algorithm automatically transforms people’s declared interests into advertising categories...
...Last week, acting on a tip, we logged into Facebook’s automated ad system to see if “Jew hater” was really an ad category. We found it, but discovered that the category — with only 2,274 people in it — was too small for Facebook to allow us to buy an ad pegged only to Jew haters.
Facebook’s automated system suggested “Second Amendment” as an additional category that would boost our audience size to 119,000 people, presumably because its system had correlated gun enthusiasts with anti-Semites.
Instead, we chose additional categories that popped up when we typed in “jew h"...
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Money, money, money enough said.
the thing is still designed to generate ad revenue.
I’m sure Facebook uses it for other sinister purposes.
I have, in my life, been called every vile name the Left has come up with.
This is nothing new, just that is on social media, which I do not ever use.
It’s not just facebook or “socialist networking sites”. It’s Amazon, ebay, and the news sites too.
Your browsing history, etc. All for sale.
“History of ‘why jews ruin the world.’..
When your life is a failure, you need someone to blame if you’re a dem.
I’m sure in secret, Hillary finds a reason to blame the Jooos for her loss.
ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!
Hello!!! How could I forget him?
I’m surprised the ears in Israel aren’t ringing when she speaks of him in private :)
He DID do some damage to her :) Good for him. I dont think I agree with him on one subject but it take guts going against a Clinton.
yeah, I know. :(
Bet you won’t find anything for muzzy hater.
That was one conclusion they reached.
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