Facebook chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg weighed in on recent issues involving the social network’s ad-targeting options and detailed steps being taken by the company.
Julia Angwin, Madeleine Varner and Ariana Tobin of ProPublica reported last week that topics such as “Jew hater,” “How to burn Jews” and “History of ‘why Jews ruin the world’” enabled potential advertisers to target nearly 2,300 users who expressed interest in them, and ProPublica was able to purchase three promoted posts that appeared in the News Feeds of those users.
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