17-09-2017 12:56 via thedrum.com

Twitter fixes ‘bug’ allowing marketers to target by derogatory terms

Twitter has said that it has fixed a “bug” that allowed marketers to use its ad serving platform to target users by terms like ‘Nazi’ or phrases like “How to burn jews.”
ProPublica found earlier this week that Facebook had advertising categories that allow buyers to tailor their ads for ‘hate speech’ sub-groups in which several thousand users were active.
Twitter was later found by the Daily Beast to also allow marketers to target many more users i
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