Facebook has responded to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s (HUD) allegations that it violated the Fair Housing Act (FHA) by allowing landlords and home sellers to use its advertising platform to engage in housing discrimination.
HUD claims 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.
Read on to see the social networking website’s response to the complaint.
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