Facebook faces discrimination lawsuits amid reports it allowed Uber to run job ads targeted exclusively at men

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development charged Facebook Inc on Thursday with violating the Fair Housing Act, alleging that the company's targeted advertising discriminated on the basis of race and color. Linda So reports......»»

Facebook settled five lawsuits alleging its targeting tools allowed advertisers to exclude certain groups from seeing housing and employment offer.....»»

Facebook is settling several lawsuits that alleged its advertising platform allowed for discrimination in ads about housing, employment and credit......»»

Globe Life stock tanked after a series of damning lawsuits, probes, and investigative reports. Here's what happened. Photo Illustration by Pavlo Gonchar/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty ImagesGlobe Life i.....»»

Elon Musk critiques Meta Platforms' advertising system amid marketer complaints, comparing sharing a Facebook link to having an AOL email address, as Meta faces challenges with ad performance and rising campaign costs. read more.....»»

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Lyft's business has been hit harder by the pandemic than rival Uber, which has offset losses with its food-delivery business. Lyft went public in March 2019 at a price of $72 per share. Mario Tama/Getty Images Lyft on Tuesday reported $569.9 mi.....»»

CEO Will Coleman on how Alto is different from Uber and Lyft, why the company chose Los Angeles as its next market, and what challenges it faces here......»»

Darren Staples/Bloomberg via Getty Images Facebook allowed advertisers on its platform to specifically target users interested in "pseudoscience," the nonprofit newsroom The Markup reported Thursday. One targeted ad promoted a so-.....»»

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Zoom Video Communications Inc. is now under fire from a shareholder who accuses the company of deliberately hiding security flaws in its platform. Bloomberg reports that investor Michael Drieu filed a class-action lawsuit against San Jose-based Zo.....»»

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A round of job cuts is coming to Cisco Systems Inc. as the company — and nearly all of the rest of the tech industry — faces uncertain economic prospects for the near future. The Wall Street Journal reports that the networking equipment maker is p.....»»

The Boy Scouts of America, one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection as it faces legal challenges defending itself against lawsuits alleging sexual abuse......»»

REUTERS/Erin Scott Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will visit European lawmakers in Brussels in February, Bloomberg reports. A Facebook spokesperson said Zuckerberg .....»»

Amid an overall bull market, many stocks that smart money investors were collectively bullish on surged in 2019. Among them, Facebook and.....»»

The social network’s growth has defied criticism from privacy experts and regulators......»»

AP Photo/Andrew Harnik Facebook executive David Marcus denied on Tuesday that Libra, the social network's big foray into money, i.....»»

Purdue Pharma, the company behind OxyContin, filed for bankruptcy protection Sunday night (September 15), amid more than 2,600 lawsuits alleging the company helped fuel the deadly U.S. opioid epidemic. Ryan Brooks reports......»»

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