WF-3WTCMF
Sexist and Racist Google Adsense Advertisements
Advertisements chosen by Google Adsense are reported as producing sexist and racist results.
- Date it happened
- 2013-01-23
- Organisation involved
- Product, system or model
- Online ad recommendation and delivery
Where this came from
- technologyreview.com
- theguardian.com
- theroot.com
- huffingtonpost.com
- queue.acm.org
- bbc.com
- technologyreview.com
- bostonglobe.com
- telegraph.co.uk
- phys.org
- businessinsider.com
- theguardian.com
- abcnews.go.com
- rt.com
- sitepronews.com
- fordfoundation.org
- cio.com
- topbots.com
- privacyinternational.org
- archive.boston.com
- sites.law.berkeley.edu
- forbes.com
- thecrimson.com
- freakonomics.com
- arxiv.org
- dailymail.co.uk
- dataprivacylab.org
Attribution
This incident was imported from AI Incident Database and is used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Our additions to it — the structured fields, the translation, the checks against other reports — are published under the same licence.
This is a record of what was reported, not a finding that anyone broke the law. If it names your organisation and you believe it is wrong, the corrections process is free and open to everyone.