The company is also tightening policies and tools that let businesses target advertisements to its two billion users, hoping to ensure that this doesn't happen again. The move follows a ProPublica report that found advertisers could use terms such as "how to burn Jews" to target ads to people with those terms in their profile. The ad-targeting fiasco follows news that the social media giant has unwittingly allowed groups backed by the Russian government to target users with ads. Sandberg said Facebook is taking steps to ensure that material violating its community standards cannot be used to target ads. "Seeing those words made me disgusted and disappointed — disgusted by these sentiments and disappointed that our systems allowed this," Sandberg wrote.

Source: CBC News September 20, 2017 21:11 UTC