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Facebook's ad options could be discriminatory

10 years ago
Facebook has an ad customization option called "Ethnic Affinities," which lets advertisers target specific groups -- or exclude them. ProPublica found that the tool can be used to discriminate against users with housing-related ads -- which is forbidden under the Fair Housing Act.

Opinion: Before emails, GOP livid about this 'smoking gun'

10 years ago
Democrats are up in arms about FBI Director James Comey's letter to Congress revealing that he is looking into more emails related to Hillary Clinton. Although the contents of those emails remain a mystery and at this point no evidence indicates new material, news of the letter created an uproar in the final days of the 2016 campaign. Members of Clinton's team have spent the entire weekend scrambling to respond. They have focused on painting Comey -- whom they had praised when he ended the investigation in July -- as a rogue or partisan official undermining a fair election.

Comey notified Congress of email probe despite DOJ concerns

10 years ago
Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates disagreed with FBI Director James Comey's decision to notify Congress about his bureau's review of emails potentially related to Hillary Clinton's personal server, law enforcement officials familiar with the discussion said.

'La La Land' director: 2 stars were key

10 years ago
Damien Chazelle spent six long years trying to make his musical love story, "La La Land." But these days, he's thankful for the bumps along the way because they all led him to the two stars who would make his movie a reality -- Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone.

Does this tie Russia to Podesta hack?

10 years ago
A phishing email sent to Hillary Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta may have been so sophisticated that it fooled the campaign's own IT staffers, who at one point advised him it was a legitimate warning to change his password.

Trump tears into US judicial system

10 years ago
Donald Trump warned voters Saturday about the "cancer" of public corruption and argued the US judicial system is like that of a "third-world country" after new reports surfaced about disagreements between top officials at the FBI and Department of Justice.

Dylan offers plan for Nobel ceremony

10 years ago
Bob Dylan apparently isn't going to leave the Nobel Prize committee hanging. The singer-songwriter, whose tunes have spoken to the socially conscious for more than five decades, told a reporter for The Telegraph newspaper of the United Kingdom that he probably will show up at the award ceremony in December.
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