Facebook offered ads targeted at "Jew-haters" until ProPublica asked about it

More than that, the code reflects the Libertarian-inflected cluelessness or disdain on the part of the coders regarding politics and society. As @HMSGoose said over in the “Bro-dega” thread, the response from the founder when asked whether the name was culturally insensitive – “I’m not particularly concerned about it” – might well be emlazoned on the gates of a future independent nation-state of Silicon Valley.

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