12-11-2016 14:00 via feeds.mashable.com

Facebook has discriminated against you, and it's not going to stop

Online advertising's been built around the ability to know exactly who you are. Are you a guitar-playing, cat-owning botanist? You'll get served ads for guitar-shaped catnip hedge grow kits. Google, Twitter, and all other digital platforms where an advertisement can be served—with Facebook leading the charge—want to know everything about you, usually already do, and use that information to convince marketers that the ads you'll see are perfectly targeted to whoever you are (or aren't
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