Facebook and Big Tobacco’s common target: Girls and women
Karen Kornbluh /
The Hill
Unlike Big Tobacco — which provides no public good and is the world’s leading cause of preventable death — Facebook and other tech platforms do connect people around the world, oftentimes for good. But Facebook has followed in Big Tobacco’s footsteps by targeting vulnerable populations to make money, in spite of information that doing so has been harmful and, in many cases, deadly.