Bad to worse: Now Facebook is being sued over housing discrimination

Fast Company reports:

The National Fair Housing Alliance, along with three other nonprofit housing advocacy organizations around the country, has filed a lawsuit against Facebook over its alleged discriminatory advertisements. The nonprofits, over the last few months, created a fake real estate company and used the Facebook ad platform to place housing ads. According to the lawsuit, the NFHA was able to place advertisements that “[excluded] families with children and women from receiving advertisements, as well as users with interests based on disability and national origin.”

In the NFHA’s press release, the organization writes that “Facebook’s advertising platform enables landlords and real estate brokers to exclude families with children, women, and other protected classes of people from receiving housing ads.”

Facebook continues to make news.