Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during a press conference in Paris on May 23, 2018. (Bertrand Guay/AFP/Getty Images/TNS) **FOR USE WITH THIS STORY ONLY**
Facebook makes money by charging advertisers to reach just the right audience for their message – even when that audience is made up of people interested in the perpetrators of the Holocaust or explicitly neo-Nazi music.
Despite promises of greater oversight following past advertising scandals, a Times review shows that Facebook has continued to allow advertisers to target hundreds of thousands of users the social media firm believes are curious about topics such as "Joseph Goebbels", "Josef Mengele", "Heinrich Himmler", the neo-nazi punk band Skrewdriver and Benito Mussolini's long-defunct National Fascist Party.
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