{"id":799,"date":"2012-03-07T18:27:29","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T18:27:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gay.blogs.cam4.com\/?p=799"},"modified":"2012-03-07T18:27:29","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T18:27:29","slug":"facebook-to-fix-system-which-tried-to-suggest-ads-for-faggots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/2012\/03\/facebook-to-fix-system-which-tried-to-suggest-ads-for-faggots\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook to fix system which tried to suggest ads for \u2018faggots\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The system asks advertisers to draw up a list of the keywords that reflect their target customer\u2019s online activity before they post an ad.<\/p>\n<p>When a new advert is set up with this list, the system automatically generates some related terms it thinks they should consider using.<\/p>\n<p>But as Darren Hemmings, found to his surprise this month, some keywords prompted Facebook to suggest searching for \u2018faggot (slang)\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cI was left speechless [&#8230;] Is this really a word Facebook should be using within its platform \u2013 a word I could probably get fired and\/or arrested for using in work or on the street?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Facebook does already ban some words on the ad targeting system, which generates the related keywords automatically.<\/p>\n<p>Adverts have to be approved by a Facebook employee and if such an advert were filed it would breach the network\u2019s advertising policies so would appear to stand little chance of going live on the site.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pinknews.co.uk\/2012\/02\/27\/facebook-to-fix-system-after-it-suggested-ads-for-faggots\/?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Pinknews+%28Pink+News%29\"> Read More <\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2012\/03\/facebookbutton.jpg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-800\" title=\"facebookbutton\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/files\/2012\/03\/facebookbutton.jpg?resize=300%2C300&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/facebookbutton.jpg?w=300&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/facebookbutton.jpg?resize=150%2C150&amp;ssl=1 150w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/facebookbutton.jpg?resize=175%2C175&amp;ssl=1 175w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The system asks advertisers to draw up a list of the keywords that reflect their target customer\u2019s online activity before they post an<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12003],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-humor","news-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":801,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cam4.com\/blog-gay\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}