HUD's new lawsuit against Facebook is a dagger at the heart of the consumer internet | By Dipayan Ghosh and Joshua A. Geltzer for CNNOpinion
Joshua A. Geltzer, formerly senior director for counterterrorism and deputy legal adviser at the National Security Council, is executive director and visiting professor of law at Georgetown Law Center's Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and an Arizona State University Future of War Fellow at New America.
Last week, the US Department of Housing and Urban Development took Facebook and the broader internet industry by surprise and storm with a remarkable allegation: that the company has engaged in discriminatory practices that engendered and perpetuated bias against marginalized classes of the American population -- such as non-Christians, immigrants, and minorities -- by displaying housing ads only to selected audience segments in unfair ways.
This charge of housing discrimination might seem like something of a peripheral matter, given core concerns about social media that relate to interference with democracy, terrorist radicalization and social polarization.
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