BPR: Hours before President Donald Trump took to social media Saturday morning to blast Silicon Valley’s tech giants for censoring conservative voices, his administration quietly launched a bombshell suit against one tech giant in particular, Facebook.
In a complaint filed in federal court Friday, the Department of Housing and Urban Development accused Facebook of violating the Fair Housing Act.
“Facebook enables advertisers to control which users receive housing-related ads based upon the recipient’s race, color, religion, sex, familial status, national origin, disability, and/or zip code,” HUD announced in a statement.
“Facebook then invites advertisers to express unlawful preferences by offering discriminatory options, allowing them to effectively limit housing options for these protected classes under the guise of ‘targeted advertising.’”
In others words, if a landlord wants to block his or her housing ads on Facebook from being seen by potential black tenants, he or she may. And according to HUD, this is wrong. MORE
Hoisted in their own petard. Did they think there wouldn’t be consequences to their oppression?
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Sometimes I get upset about the President’s tweets, but it seems that like many people have said, there’s always a reason behind them.
Trump uses his tweets like a
fisherman uses his hooks.
He is a master of “trolling”
and having his enemies reveal
themselves as they rise to
his bait.
And so it begins.
Hahahaha. HUD doing the job Jeff Sessions won’t do
Alinsky Rule #4: Make the enemy live up to its own book of rules.
– Not that Facebook is our enemy or anything like that.
John — That is a great analogy!
(I have yet to see a POTUS tweet that was wrong in its assertions.)
Mr. Anth Ropy,
You are wrong, Facebook is our enemy.
@Dave Huff:
Mr. Anth Ropy’s comment was sarcasm.