Meta Details Plans to Comply With DOJ Settlement Over HUD Discrimination Complaint

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Meta provided an update on steps it is taking to implement terms of the settlement it reached with the Department of Justice in June over discriminatory uses of ad targeting options from then-Facebook, resolving a complaint filed in August 2018 by the Department of Housing and Urban Development.

The HUD complaint was related to housing ads, but the same issues were raised regarding credit and employment ads, and Meta said it will apply plans it shared in the settlement to all three categories.

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