Facebook Under Fire For Selling Emotionally Vulnerable Kids’ Data To Advertisers

Less than two months after announcing it would begin using artificial intelligence tools in its marketing arm, Facebook is now being accused of letting advertisers target emotionally vulnerable children.
According to The Australian, a 23-page leaked document obtained by the outlet – marked ‘Confidential: Internal Only’ and dated 2017 – reveals that the social media giant used algorithms to sift through the posts, pictures, and reactions of 6.4 million ‘high schoolers,’ ‘tertiary students,’ and ‘young Australians and New Zealanders…in the workforce’ with the aim of learning about their emotional state.

This post was published at Zero Hedge on May 2, 2017.