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Some insight, perhaps, into recent world events:
Facebook’s Offensive Ad Targeting Options Go Far Beyond “Jew Haters
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_t...s_target_jew_haters_it_doesn_t_end_there.html
ProPublica reported Thursday that it was able to use Facebook’s advertising platform to target users who had expressed interest in topics such as “Jew hater” and “German Schutzstaffel,” also known as the Nazi SS. And when ProPublica’s reporters were in the process of typing “Jew hater,” Facebook’s ad-targeting tool went so far as to recommend related topics such as “how to burn Jews” and “History of ‘why Jews ruin the world.’”
To make sure the categories were real, ProPublica tried to purchase three ads, or “promoted posts,” targeting those users. Facebook’s targeting tool initially wouldn’t place the ads—not because of anything wrong with the categories, but simply because the number of Facebook users interested in them was beneath its preprogrammed threshold. When ProPublica added a larger category to “Jew hater” and the others, however, Facebook’s ad tool reported that its audience selection was “great!” Within 15 minutes, the company’s ad system had approved all three ads.
Contacted about the anti-Semitic ad categories by ProPublica, Facebook removed them, explaining that they had been generated algorithmically. The company added that it would explore ways to prevent similarly offensive ad targeting categories from appearing in the future.
Yet when Slate tried something similar Thursday, our ad targeting “Kill Muslimic Radicals,” “Ku-Klux-Klan,” and more than a dozen other plainly hateful groups was similarly approved. In our case, it took Facebook’s system just one minute to give the green light.
This isn’t the first time the investigative journalism nonprofit has exposed shady targeting options on Facebook’s ad network. Last year, ProPublica found that Facebook allowed it to exclude certain “ethnic affinities” from a housing ad—a practice that appeared to violate federal anti-discrimination laws. Facebook responded by tweaking its system to prevent ethnic targeting in ads for credit, housing, or jobs. And last week, the Washington Post reported that Facebook had run ads from shadowy, Kremlin-linked Russian groups that were apparently intended to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The revelation that Facebook allows advertisers to target neo-Nazis and anti-Semites comes at a time when it and other tech companies are under growing scrutiny for their role in facilitating online hate and white supremacy. As our colleague April Glaser recently reported, that change in attitude from previously permissive tech companies has begun to give rise to a sort of right-wing shadow web that embraces controversial, offensive, and even hateful speech.
About an hour after ProPublica published its story Thursday, Slate was able to place its own ad on Facebook using similarly offensive search terms for audience targeting. Though the company had removed the specific terms mentioned in ProPublica’s search, it took only a few minutes to find myriad other categories of the same ilk that were still available on the company’s ad targeting tool.
Following ProPublica’s methods, we built an ad to boost an existing, unrelated post. We used Facebook’s targeting tool to narrow our audience by demographics, including Education and Employer. We found and included 18 targeting categories with offensive names, each of which comprised a relatively small number of users, totaling fewer than 1,000 people altogether.
As with ProPublica’s ad, Facebook’s tool initially said our audience was too small, so we added users whom its algorithm had identified as being interested in Germany’s far-right party (the same one ProPublica used). That gave us a potential audience of 135,000, large enough to submit, which we did, using a $20 budget. Facebook approved our ad one minute later.
Below are some of the targeting groups Facebook allowed us to use in the ad. Many were auto-suggested by the tool itself—that is, when we typed “Kill Mus,” it asked if we wanted to use “Kill Muslim radicals” as a targeting category. The following categories were among those that appeared in its autocomplete suggestions under the option to target users by “field of study:”
Facebook did not immediately respond to Slate’s request for comment.
"It's like Juicero, but for our entire way of life, the rule of law, and everything we cherish"
Facebook’s Offensive Ad Targeting Options Go Far Beyond “Jew Haters
http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_t...s_target_jew_haters_it_doesn_t_end_there.html
ProPublica reported Thursday that it was able to use Facebook’s advertising platform to target users who had expressed interest in topics such as “Jew hater” and “German Schutzstaffel,” also known as the Nazi SS. And when ProPublica’s reporters were in the process of typing “Jew hater,” Facebook’s ad-targeting tool went so far as to recommend related topics such as “how to burn Jews” and “History of ‘why Jews ruin the world.’”
To make sure the categories were real, ProPublica tried to purchase three ads, or “promoted posts,” targeting those users. Facebook’s targeting tool initially wouldn’t place the ads—not because of anything wrong with the categories, but simply because the number of Facebook users interested in them was beneath its preprogrammed threshold. When ProPublica added a larger category to “Jew hater” and the others, however, Facebook’s ad tool reported that its audience selection was “great!” Within 15 minutes, the company’s ad system had approved all three ads.
Contacted about the anti-Semitic ad categories by ProPublica, Facebook removed them, explaining that they had been generated algorithmically. The company added that it would explore ways to prevent similarly offensive ad targeting categories from appearing in the future.
Yet when Slate tried something similar Thursday, our ad targeting “Kill Muslimic Radicals,” “Ku-Klux-Klan,” and more than a dozen other plainly hateful groups was similarly approved. In our case, it took Facebook’s system just one minute to give the green light.
This isn’t the first time the investigative journalism nonprofit has exposed shady targeting options on Facebook’s ad network. Last year, ProPublica found that Facebook allowed it to exclude certain “ethnic affinities” from a housing ad—a practice that appeared to violate federal anti-discrimination laws. Facebook responded by tweaking its system to prevent ethnic targeting in ads for credit, housing, or jobs. And last week, the Washington Post reported that Facebook had run ads from shadowy, Kremlin-linked Russian groups that were apparently intended to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
The revelation that Facebook allows advertisers to target neo-Nazis and anti-Semites comes at a time when it and other tech companies are under growing scrutiny for their role in facilitating online hate and white supremacy. As our colleague April Glaser recently reported, that change in attitude from previously permissive tech companies has begun to give rise to a sort of right-wing shadow web that embraces controversial, offensive, and even hateful speech.
About an hour after ProPublica published its story Thursday, Slate was able to place its own ad on Facebook using similarly offensive search terms for audience targeting. Though the company had removed the specific terms mentioned in ProPublica’s search, it took only a few minutes to find myriad other categories of the same ilk that were still available on the company’s ad targeting tool.
Following ProPublica’s methods, we built an ad to boost an existing, unrelated post. We used Facebook’s targeting tool to narrow our audience by demographics, including Education and Employer. We found and included 18 targeting categories with offensive names, each of which comprised a relatively small number of users, totaling fewer than 1,000 people altogether.
As with ProPublica’s ad, Facebook’s tool initially said our audience was too small, so we added users whom its algorithm had identified as being interested in Germany’s far-right party (the same one ProPublica used). That gave us a potential audience of 135,000, large enough to submit, which we did, using a $20 budget. Facebook approved our ad one minute later.
Below are some of the targeting groups Facebook allowed us to use in the ad. Many were auto-suggested by the tool itself—that is, when we typed “Kill Mus,” it asked if we wanted to use “Kill Muslim radicals” as a targeting category. The following categories were among those that appeared in its autocomplete suggestions under the option to target users by “field of study:”
- How kill jewish
- Killing Bitches
- Killing Hajis
- Pillage the women and rape the village
- Threesome Rape
- Kill Muslimic Radicals
- Killing Haji
- Ku-Klux-Klan
- Jew Killing Weekly Magazine
- The school of fagget murder & assassination
Facebook did not immediately respond to Slate’s request for comment.
"It's like Juicero, but for our entire way of life, the rule of law, and everything we cherish"
Moving and chilling short documentary about a far-right, pro-Nazi gathering at Madison Square Gardens, NYC, 1939. Oh how we don't learn from history!!
Safc-mark-91
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Where I live (Sunderland) we seem to have a problem where the EDL see this at their 'stronghold' sort of thing and we get Tommy Robinson visiting quite frequently.
Vast majority or uneducated knuckle draggers. Frequently go out marching in our town centre on match days. They normally do it as a 'justice for Chelsea' campaign about a young lass who was allegedly raped by a muslim grooming gang. I think, there using that as a smoke-screen to try and justify their vile hatred and stir up trouble.
I sympathise with the genuine members (if there is such a thing) who just want to raise awareness and go after justice. But, too often they just use that as an excuse to drink, shout obsenties and cost the tax payer money in litter, violence and criminal damage.
Depressing world we live in.
Vast majority or uneducated knuckle draggers. Frequently go out marching in our town centre on match days. They normally do it as a 'justice for Chelsea' campaign about a young lass who was allegedly raped by a muslim grooming gang. I think, there using that as a smoke-screen to try and justify their vile hatred and stir up trouble.
I sympathise with the genuine members (if there is such a thing) who just want to raise awareness and go after justice. But, too often they just use that as an excuse to drink, shout obsenties and cost the tax payer money in litter, violence and criminal damage.
Depressing world we live in.
My mother in law voted for a guy who advocates walking pigs outside mosques. The Czechs have gone like Brexit plus in their bonkersness. Very sad.
I wonder if some of the people in this video sent their american born kids back to Germany to sign up and fight for the fatherland to fight for the Nazis.
Jesus, Chilling is to soft a word!
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4Chan trolls contruct a plan, distribute and post up flyers saying "It's OK To Be White" across the US universities. People get offended, signs are branded "hate crimes" and "racist" and the media picks it up. Oh, and a police investigation is launched.
Masterful trolling I have to say.
Masterful trolling I have to say.
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dead_soft
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4Chan trolls contruct a plan, distribute and post up flyers saying "It's OK To Be White" across the US universities. People get offended, signs are branded "hate crimes" and "racist" and the media picks it up. Oh, and a police investigation is launched.
Masterful trolling I have to say.
Or just being childish pricks?
4Chan trolls contruct a plan, distribute and post up flyers saying "It's OK To Be White" across the US universities. People get offended, signs are branded "hate crimes" and "racist" and the media picks it up. Oh, and a police investigation is launched.
Masterful trolling I have to say.
I agree with dead_soft: How is "trolling" in any way virtuous or masterful? It just seems to be a bunch of anonymous juvenile idiots spewing tiny antagonistic sound-bytes.
dholliday
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It's subversive satire, like what Chris Morris used to do. There's deffo a place for it.
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