Facebook let advertisers target people interested in Nazis - Sensationalist Headlines

https://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-facebook-nazi-metal-ads-20190221-story.html Facebook makes money by charging advertisers to reach just the right audience for their message — even when that audience is made up of people interested in the perpetrators of the Holocaust or explicitly neo-Nazi music. Despite promises of greater oversight following past advertising scandals, a Times review shows that Facebook has continued to allow advertisers to target hundreds of thousands of users the social media firm believes are curious about topics such as “Joseph Goebbels,” “Josef Mengele,” “Heinrich Himmler,” the neo-nazi punk band Skrewdriver and Benito Mussolini’s long-defunct National Fascist Party. After being contacted by The Times, Facebook said that it wouldremove many of the audience groupings from its ad platform. Facebook has promised since 2017 that humans review every ad targeting category. It announced last fall the removal of 5,000 audience categories that risked enabling abuse or discrimination. Facebook allowed The Times to target ads to users Facebook has determined are interested in Goebbels, the Third Reich’s chief propagandist, Himmler, the architect of the Holocaust and leader of the SS, and Mengele, the infamous concentration camp doctor who performed human experiments on prisoners. Each category included hundreds of thousands of users.

joke: die for your country to preserve freedom from being overrun by fascists, imperialists, and nazis woke: die for the country that allows social media networks to do targeted advertising for the same scumfucks you died fighting

'The goal is to automate us' "For today’s owners of surveillance capital the experiential realities of bodies, thoughts and feelings are as virgin and blameless as nature’s once-plentiful meadows, rivers, oceans and forests before they fell to the market dynamic. We have no formal control over these processes because we are not essential to the new market action. Instead we are exiles from our own behaviour, denied access to or control over knowledge derived from its dispossession by others for others. Knowledge, authority and power rest with surveillance capital, for which we are merely “human natural resources”. We are the native peoples now whose claims to self-determination have vanished from the maps of our own experience." Fuck it. Eat the rich.

Eating the rich, hey it'll taste a lot nicer than some hobo that's for sure.

Excuse me! My taste is very tender and delicate!

If I were a philanthropist I would just outbid or buy up the ads and target the ads to educational resources

Okay, can we please now shut down social media? This is incredibly predatory fucking behaviour. This is the kind of shit that would get someone fuckin' locked up.

Lol will literally never happen, it's too ingrained into society at this point, best to just be very wary of any form of it which may suck but that's the reality we live in now.

No. I refuse to take 'it will never happen' as an answer because its fucking defeatist. If we're going to have to a healthy society, we need to shut this shit down ASAP. I don't give a fuck about your god damn grandma. If it takes smashing their god damn servers, then do it because this is predatory, end of.

The only way I see it happening is if someone brings the whole thing down from the inside.

I'll admit I have a morbid interest in Nazis but I think it's important to understand how they came to be, what makes them different and not so different from any other people.

This reads like an Alpha Centauri research quote.

This is not even the first time they were caught with this. Remember when it was found they allowed to target people on white supremacy? The FP thread must be from past year. This shit has to be brought down with laws if they aren't going to stop it, even if this means opening a door for possible political censorship. Is not worth the risk.

Spot on, yeah. One of my favorite games of all time for it's massively underrated writing.

targeted advertisement should only be used for trolling these people "Oh you are interested in Holocaust denial, do you need psychiatric help?"

"Hot singles in your area want to meet you!" "Budweiser: It's beer-like!" "Hooked-On-Phonics!"

Ban the printed letter, for it shall bring the end of society!

Got nothing to do with it bucko but nice try.