Why Facebook Is Reducing Advertisers' Targeting Capabilities

Makes it harder to use tools to facilitate discrimination

Facebook is reducing the targeting capabilities available to advertisers on the social network by 5,000 in hopes of curtailing discriminatory practices. 

The move comes amid a hail of public criticism contending Facebook’s advertising tools facilitate discrimination. It also helps deliver on an earlier agreement Facebook signed with the office of Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson to curb such exclusions. 

In a blog post, the social network it will limit advertisers’ ability to exclude audiences depending on their registered ethnicity or religion. For

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