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Why Facebook Is Reducing Advertisers' Targeting Capabilities

Makes it harder to use tools to facilitate discrimination

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By Ronan Shields

August 21, 2018

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

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Ronan Shields is Adweek's programmatic editor.

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