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Facebook – Clever Target Marketing or Racial Profiling?

Ben Cahill

31st March 2016

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Facebook users “like” an average of 70 pages each. The type of pages liked gives Facebook a lot of information about the interests of that person and they can also make other inferences about such things as gender and race. This can then be used to target a certain group of people with advertising.