#GAReads | Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers From Seeing Job Ads. The Federal Government Thinks That's Illegal.

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“Employers Used Facebook to Keep Women and Older Workers From Seeing Job Ads. The Federal Government Thinks That's Illegal.”:

Two years ago, ProPublica and The New York Times revealed that companies were posting discriminatory job ads on Facebook, using the social network’s targeting tools to keep older workers from seeing employment opportunities. Then we reported companies were using Facebook to exclude women from seeing job ads.

Experts told us that it was most likely illegal. And it turns out the federal government now agrees.

Read Ariana Tobin’s full article at ProPublica here…