Twitter fixed ‘bug’ that enables advertisers to reach racists 

 Twitter has fixed a “bug” on its platform that allowed advertisers to target “Jew haters” and others with racial epithets and terms like “Nazi”, the microblogging site announced.

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According to a report:

• According to a report on Friday, Twitter ads returned 26.3 million users.
• In addition,who may respond to the term “wetback”, 18.6 million to “Nazi” and 14.5 million to “n***er”.
• We determined these few campaigns were able to go through.
• Because of a bug that we have now fixed, quoted a Twitter spokesperson as saying.
• Twitter prohibits and prevents ad campaigns involving offensive or inappropriate content.
• And we will continue to strongly enforce our policies.
• Earlier this week, Facebook faced criticism after reports emerged that the social networking giant allowed advertisers.
• To target users based on categories like “Ku-Klux-Klan” and “Jew hater”.

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• Google was also found to allow advertisers to specifically target ads to people typing racist and bigoted terms into its search bar.
• While both implemented changes to its targeting platform.
• Furthermore,the incident has spurred fresh debate as to whether these giant internet companies should add more pro-active human oversight to their algorithms.
• Especially to filter inappropriate and hateful speech.

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