Facebook settles five lawsuits alleging that its ad systems enabled discrimination in housing, credit and employment.
For the social network, that’s one major legal problem down, several to go, including government investigations in the U.S. and Europe over its data and privacy practices.
The social media company is also paying about $5 million to cover plaintiffs’ legal fees and other costs. What’s not yet clear is how well the safeguards will work. Facebook has been working to address a slew of social consequences related to its platform, with varying degrees of success. Last week, itgraphic video filmed by a gunman in the New Zealand mosque shootings, but the footage remained available for hours on its site and elsewhere on social media.
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