Facebook to refine ‘ethnic affinity’ targeting policies to work to avoid ethnic discrimination

Facebook has come under recent fire for its ability for advertisers to sort by “ethnic affinities,” which critics say allow discrimination based on race, gender and other factors. In an effort to improve enforcement and promote diversity, Facebook has made updates to its ethnic affinity marketing policies to work to remedy the potential ramifications.
Facebook offered the following as updates to their policy:
Build tools to detect and automatically disable the use of ethnic affinity