{"id":6662,"date":"2017-09-15T01:20:19","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T23:20:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2017\/09\/15\/facebook-allowed-advertisers-to-target-jew-haters\/"},"modified":"2017-09-15T01:20:19","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T23:20:19","slug":"facebook-allowed-advertisers-to-target-jew-haters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=6662","title":{"rendered":"Facebook allowed advertisers to target &#039;Jew haters&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Embarrassing discovery that Facebook let advertisers target users interested in antisemitic topics comes as the social network\u2019s ad practices are under scrutinyFacebook has allowed advertising to target users interested in the topics of \u201cJew hater\u201d and \u201cHow to burn Jews\u201d, according to an investigation that adds to mounting criticisms of the way the company allows and profits from unethical ads. ProPublica, an investigative news organization, reported on Thursday that the social network\u2019s self-service ad-buying system allowed people to direct advertisements to nearly 2,300 users interested in several explicitly antisemitic subjects, including a category labeled \u201cHistory of \u2018why Jews ruin the world\u2019\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2017\/sep\/14\/facebook-advertising-jew-hater-antisemitism\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook allowed advertisers to target &#039;Jew haters&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embarrassing discovery that Facebook let advertisers target users interested in antisemitic topics comes as the social network\u2019s ad practices are under scrutinyFacebook has allowed advertising to target users interested in the topics of \u201cJew hater\u201d and \u201cHow to burn Jews\u201d, according to an investigation that adds to mounting criticisms of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}