Facebook is stepping up its efforts to prevent discriminatory advertising with the introduction of a two-step process. First is an attempt to "educate" advertisers not to create content that discriminates based on age, colour, religion, sexual orientation and many other categories. The second step, which will be rolled out in coming weeks, involves removing any ads from users who are found to have violated Facebook's community standards. Or excuses when the code inevitably doesn't work as advertised. Critics have argued asking the advertisers to police their own content is "lazy".
Facebook is stepping up its efforts to prevent discriminatory advertising with the introduction of a two-step process. First is an attempt to "educate" advertisers not to create content that discriminates based on age, colour, religion, sexual orientation and many other categories. The second step, which will be rolled out in coming weeks, involves removing any ads from users who are found to have violated Facebook's community standards. Critics have argued asking the advertisers to police their own content is "lazy".