All these changes came into the scene right after two weeks of publication of an article by ProPublica which is a non-profit investigative news organization. The news article showed how Facebook was allowing its advertisers to exclude the groups on the basis of ethnic affinities. The news organization said that it considered these practices to violate the federal housing and civil rights laws that were passed in the 1960s. After ProPublica had published the report, a group of Facebook users had filed a lawsuit against the social networking company claiming that such targeting of ads was violating the Fair Housing Act and Civil Rights Act.