Housing
Facebook Is Being Sued for Housing Discrimination, Too
It all goes back to how the social media company collects, shares, and sells user information.
Facebook is in the midst of a crisis—and it’s only getting worse.
Yesterday, Cook County in Chicago announced that it is suing the company for violating a local fraud law. It joins a handful of other lawsuits against the social media company after the personal information of about 50 million of its users was reportedly obtained, and used for political gains by a company working for consultants for the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. But that’s not all. Facebook is now being sued on another, related front: the use of its large troves of private user data for housing discrimination.