Cybersecurity
Facebook Apologizes for Showing Parenting Ads to Bereaved Mother
- Anna England-Kerr said she saw ads for IVF, baby products
- Social network said it was working to fix software bug cause
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Facebook Inc. is facing criticism in the U.K. after it continued to show ads for baby products to a woman who’d posted on the site that the baby she had been expecting was stillborn.
Anna England-Kerr said that after sharing the news on the social network, she continued to see ads for cots, baby blankets and bottles, and more recently IVF treatments, despite changing settings on Facebook that should have blocked such appearances.