Facebook has stopped advertisers from targeting messages to people interested in topics such as “Jew haters” and “how to burn Jews” after journalists inquired about it, the news organisation ProPublica reported on Thursday.
ProPublica, a non-profit outlet based in New York, said it found the topics in Facebook’s self-service ad-buying platform and paid $US30 to test them with its own content.
Another category it found was “History of ‘why Jews ruin the world.’ ”
The anti-Semitic categories were created by an algorithm rather than by people, ProPublica reported. About 2300 people had expressed interest in them.
Read the report in The Sydney Morning Herald (Reuters).