{"id":6081,"date":"2022-06-21T21:37:44","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T19:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/facebook-will-stop-using-an-advertising-tool-in-settlement-with-us-government\/"},"modified":"2022-06-21T21:37:44","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T19:37:44","slug":"facebook-will-stop-using-an-advertising-tool-in-settlement-with-us-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/facebook-will-stop-using-an-advertising-tool-in-settlement-with-us-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook will stop using an advertising tool in settlement with US government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Lookalike Audience\u2019 tool relies on algorithm that US said discriminates on the basis of race, sex and other characteristics<\/p>\n<p>Facebook will change its algorithms to prevent discriminatory housing advertising and its parent company will subject itself to court oversight to settle a lawsuit brought by the US Department of Justice on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>In a release, US government officials said that Meta, formerly known as Facebook, reached an agreement to settle the lawsuit filed the same day in Manhattan federal court.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2022\/jun\/21\/facebook-lawsuit-settlement-advertising-lookalike-audience-doj\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/0466772c3b49773a3df71448df72c2ce6f2d73fa\/0_159_3500_2101\/master\/3500.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3ab54d98802a71a2b785e9ab795bf1df\" title=\"Facebook will stop using an advertising tool in settlement with US government\" \/>The \u2018Lookalike Audience\u2019 tool relies on algorithm that US said discriminates on the basis of race, sex and other characteristics<br \/>\nFacebook will change its algorithms to prevent discriminatory housing advertising and its parent company will subject itself to court oversight to settle a lawsuit brought by the US Department of Justice on Tuesday.<br \/>\nIn a release, US government officials said that Meta, formerly known as Facebook, reached an agreement to settle the lawsuit filed the same day in Manhattan federal court. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u2018Lookalike Audience\u2019 tool relies on algorithm that US said discriminates on the basis of race, sex and other characteristics Facebook will change its algorithms to prevent discriminatory housing advertising and its parent company will subject itself to court oversight to settle a lawsuit brought by the US Department of Justice on Tuesday. In a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2022\/06\/21\/facebook-will-stop-using-an-advertising-tool-in-settlement-with-us-government\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Facebook will stop using an advertising tool in settlement with US government<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}