Facebook pulls out feature

FACEBOOK will no longer help advertisers target users who had described themselves as anti-Semitic.ProPublica reported that Facebook's platform allowed advertisers to target users who had entered terms such as "jew hater" in the education or employment fields of their personal profiles.

The offensive descriptions were automatically transferred to Facebook's (FB, Tech30) ad platform as categories that could be targeted by advertisers.

The feature was originally intended to allow companies to direct ads to users based on their school or job.

Related: Facebook: We won't allow users to profit from fake news and violence Find out how this tennis ingenue is putting Japan's women's tennis on the world map. The social network said Friday it had "immediately removed" the anti-Semitic advertising categories after ProPublica's report.

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It said it would also prevent advertisers from targeting users based on their education or employment profiles "until we have the right processes in place."

Facebook described the number of people who had entered the offensive terms in their profiles as "incredibly low."

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