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Facebook's Ad Delivery Reportedly Excluded Audience along Racial and Gender Lines
Facebook's housing and employment ad delivery process allegedly resulted in skews in exposure for some users along demographic lines such as gender and racial identity.
- Date it happened
- 2019-04-03
- Organisation involved
- Product, system or model
- Facebook's ad-delivery system targets advertisements bought by employers to different users who might fit those jobs. Findings suggest that algorithms show the ads to statistically distinct demographi
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