Facebook’s generation of ‘Jew Hater’ and other advertising categories prompts system inspection
Update: Facebook has disabled using the user-reported fields in question in its advertising system until further notice. Facebook automatically generates categories advertisers can target, such as “jogger” and “activist,” based on what it observes in users’ profiles. Usually that’s not a problem, but ProPublica found that Facebook had generated anti-Semitic categories such as “Jew Hater” …