{"id":120840,"date":"2017-09-21T15:18:49","date_gmt":"2017-09-21T13:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=120840"},"modified":"2017-09-21T15:19:37","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T13:19:37","slug":"facebook-cracks-down-on-hate-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/120840-facebook-cracks-down-on-hate-ads","title":{"rendered":"Facebook cracks down on hate ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is strengthening its policies and tools to better fight hate ads and prevent hateful terms being offered as ad targeting options.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement follows a report by ProPublica about Facebook enabling advertisers to target groups with terms like \u201cJew hater\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, Facebook temporarily disabled certain ads tools as slurs and offensive language could be used as targeting criteria.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sheryl\/posts\/10159255449515177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg said<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0the social media platform will:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Clarify their advertising policies and tighten their enforcement processes to ensure content that breaches community standards cannot be used to target ads.<\/li>\n<li>Add more human review and oversight to automated processes.<\/li>\n<li>Encourage people on Facebook to report potential abuses of its ads system.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u201cWe hope these changes will prevent abuses like this going forward,\u201d said Sandberg.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/228635-facebook-instant-videos-unveiled.html\">Facebook Instant Videos unveiled<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is strengthening its policies and tools to better fight hate ads and prevent hateful terms being offered as ad targeting options.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":101568,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[199,25100],"class_list":["post-120840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-facebook","tag-hate-ads"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120842,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120840\/revisions\/120842"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}