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Housing, Employment, and Credit Ads
Also: Special ad categories
Ads in categories covered by US civil rights law, where targeting by age, gender, ZIP code, and interests correlated with protected classes is prohibited. Meta's special ad categories, adopted after the 2019 HUD settlement, remove those targeting options; Google applies similar restrictions.
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Agency Echelon. "Housing, Employment, and Credit Ads." Agency Echelon Reference, reviewed September 2026. https://agencyechelon.com/reference/glossary/housing-employment-and-credit-ads/