Friday, July 31, 2020

Facebook showed this ad to 95% women. Is that a problem?


How algorithmic ad targeting can segregate us.

In 2019, Facebook settled a lawsuit with civil rights groups following the revelation that advertisers using their platform could use the targeting options to exclude many specific demographics from seeing their ads. It's now more difficult for an unscrupulous advertiser to use Facebook's platform to discriminate.

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