New York investigating whether Facebook allows housing discrimination

Facebook is already facing charges from the Department of Housing and Urban Development that the social media giant enabled real estate companies to unlawfully discriminate against users by choosing who could view their ads based on race, nationality, religion, color, familial status, sex and disability, but that’s not the only trouble the site is facing. New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced this week that he has asked the New York Department of Financial Services to begin investigating Facebook and whether the site allowed housing providers to discriminate against prospective residents from protected classes.

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