Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older Workers From Job Ads

Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by harryh on Wednesday December 20, 2017 @11:43PM (#15976497)

explicitly preventing people of a certain age from seeing your ad is.

But that's not what "you" are doing. All these jobs are public. Every company in America has a jobs page that anyone of any age is free to look at.

What you are doing is not paying money to force your ad in front of people in a certain age.

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by lionelione43 on Thursday December 21, 2017 @01:00AM (#15976777)

You bring up a good point. If you choose specifically to advertise to a specific demographic, can you be fined for NOT advertising to another? Is a company that puts a job offer ad in a men's or women's magazine breaking the law?

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Re:Dozens of Companies Are Using Facebook to Exclude Older W... by evgen on Thursday December 21, 2017 @04:21AM (#15977493)

Does the men's or women's magazine explicitly work to prevent people of the other gender from being able to read its articles? You can legally pick an environment/medium in which to run your ad that may have a specific demographic, but when you get to explicitly set viewership then you have to be much more careful.

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