Facebook adjusts filters to better thwart discriminatory ads

Facebook is reforming how it sells housing, employment and credit-related ads as part of a legal settlement with multiple civil rights advocacy groups over past discriminatory ad practices on the platform.As part of the settlement, Facebook will pay $5 million and implement new protocols that are designed to prevent housing, employment and credit-related advertisers from targetingor avoiding targetingcertain groups of people based on characteristics, including race, sex, religion and age. Faceb