{"id":179232,"date":"2018-04-12T19:53:00","date_gmt":"2018-04-13T00:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/12\/textbook-facebook-racism\/"},"modified":"2018-04-12T19:53:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-13T00:53:00","slug":"textbook-facebook-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2018\/04\/12\/textbook-facebook-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"Textbook (Facebook) Racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote data-lang=\"en\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is a direct solicitation for ad buyers to racially discriminate using Facebook&#8217;s tools. It is on Facebook&#8217;s site right now. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/9f43WLmmKF\">pic.twitter.com\/9f43WLmmKF<\/a><\/div>\n<p>\u2014 Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/matthewstoller\/status\/983826557935542273?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 10, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Certainly, there are plenty of advertisers who could look at this ad, and not see any racism.<\/p>\n<p>These are the same people who have lily white office staff, and don&#8217;t see any racism either.<\/p>\n<p>You see this all the time in real estate listings and job listings, and most of the time, the attempts to discourage differently pigmented people are a <b>LOT<\/b> subtler than this.<\/p>\n<p>FWIW, my guess is that this sort of data mining is used a lot more for age discrimination than it is for race discrimination, but much of the allure to some advertisers is the ability to indulge in bigotry and not get caught.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook knows exactly what they are doing here. <a href=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/QENd7d0.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.imgur.com\/QENd7d0.jpg\" width=\"2\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is a direct solicitation for ad buyers to racially discriminate using Facebook&#8217;s tools. It is on Facebook&#8217;s site right now. pic.twitter.com\/9f43WLmmKF \u2014 Matt Stoller (@matthewstoller) April 10, 2018 Certainly, there are plenty of advertisers who could look at this ad, and not see any racism. These are the same people who have lily white &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[506,365,364,367,398],"class_list":["post-179232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bigotry","tag-business","tag-evil","tag-internet","tag-racism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179232"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179232\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}