HUD Complaint Says Facebook Discriminated Against Users With Advertising
Advocates have struggled for years to get HUD to hold Facebook accountable for its discriminatory advertising practices.Richard B. Levine/Levine Roberts/Newscom via ZUMA Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Friday, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development announced it had filed a housing discrimination complaint against Facebook for violating the Fair Housing Act…
Experts Warn Congress That Facebook and Twitter Can No Longer Set Their Own Rules on Foreign Disinformation
Chairman Richard Burr (R-NC), (R), speaks while flanked by ranking member Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA), (C), and Sen. Dianne Feinstein, (D-CA), during a Senate Intelligence Committee hearing, on Capitol Hill, on August 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. The committee heard testimony about foreign influence on social media platforms. Mark Wilson / Getty Images News Looking…
See the Mysterious Fake Facebook Posts that Targeted the Left
Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. On Tuesday, Facebook announced it had uncovered a web of fake accounts and posts targeting Americans. While Facebook says it is unable to firmly attribute the influence campaign to Russian actors, the company has noted that some of the techniques deployed by the accounts are…
High Court Kicks Silicon Valley Investor’s Plan to Split Up California Off Ballot
Venture capitalist Tim Draper points to a computer screen at his offices in San Mateo, Calif., showing that an initiative to split California into three states qualified for the ballot.Haven Daley/AP Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. California voters will no longer have the option to vote on splitting the largest state in…
Health Insurers Are Using Your Online Shopping Cart and Zip Code to Determine Your Rates
Insurers and data brokers are predicting your health costs based on data about things like race, marital status, how much TV you watch, whether you pay your bills on time or even buy plus-size clothing.Scanrail/Getty Images Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally co-published by ProPublica and NPR.…
One of Trump’s Potential SCOTUS Nominees Sent a Tweet He Probably Really Regrets
Tom Williams/Congressional Quarterly/Newscom via ZUMA Press Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Only one person on President Trump’s short list to replace retiring Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy is on record with his support for a “constitutional right to marry bacon.” I could support recognizing a constitutional right to marry bacon.…