Facebook’s Algorithm Practices Gender Discrimination
▻https://theintercept.com/2021/04/09/facebook-algorithm-gender-discrimination
A University of Southern California study provides still more evidence that the company’s ad targeting illegally discriminates. New research from a team at the University of Southern California provides further evidence that Facebook’s advertising system is discriminatory, showing that the algorithm used to target ads reproduced real-world gender disparities when showing job listings, even among equally qualified candidates. In fields from software engineering to sales to food delivery, the (...)
