Facebook video spreads climate denial misinformation to 5 million users | Dana Nuccitelli

referring to Morano's climate fake newsMorano begins his video by denying the 97% expert consensus on human-caused global warming. That's a valid point, except this was just one among many such climate consensus studies. This claim is similar to one made on Fox News that earned a 'Pants on Fire' rating from Politifact based on consultation with climate scientists. Human-caused global warming now far outside the range of natural variability. And of course, climate scientists have observed human fingerprints all over climate change, most recently in the atmosphere.

Facebook labels Russian users as 'interested in treason'

Facebook said the label was intended to only identify historical treason. For instance, they could run an advert targeting exclusively users living in Russia and marked as being interested in treason, then record the IP addresses of users who clicked through. If we find misuse, we ban the developers."Algorithmically determining users' interests is a key aspect of Facebook's advertising platform. For instance, advertising sporting products only to users who care about sport or allowing record labels to advertise music to users who are already known to like a given artist. Since that law came into effect, Facebook has specifically asked users if they're comfortable with that information being posted on their profiles.

Facebook signs agreement saying it won't let housing advertisers exclude users by race

according to Facebook signs agreement saying it won't let housing advertisers exclude users by race The agreement with Washington state forces Facebook to make nationwide changesFacebook has signed a new, legally binding agreement with the state of Washington agreeing to remove advertisers' ability to exclude races, religions, sexual orientations, and other protected classes in certain ad-targeting sectors. "That's wrong, illegal, and unfair." The agreement Facebook has signed gives it 90 days to comply with the required changes. The Washington state attorney general's office says the changes will be implemented nationwide, while the agreement will be legally binding in the state of Washington. In response to the second report, Facebook said it would temporarily disable advertisers' ability to use the targeting tools in question. Facebook has since removed the ability to target users for ads based on its multicultural affinity groups across the board.

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