A 2024 research paper curated by a team of university researchers suggests that Facebook’s advertising algorithm has unevenly targeted Black users with ads for for-profit colleges. A 2024 research ...

Researchers at the University of Southern California discovered Facebook’s ad servers discriminate against women by preventing them from seeing some ads that serve up on the platform for job. When ...

VRS is the outcome of a lawsuit that saw Meta, formerly known as Facebook, come under fire for its housing ads. According to the case, the company applied algorithms that could serve ads based on ...

The advocacy group Real Women in Trucking says Facebook’s targeted employment ads discriminate against women and older users. In a complaint to the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission, the group ...

Algorithms aren’t acting maliciously. They’re doing what they were built to do. That’s why algorithmic bias in marketing is an ownership issue and a leadership concern.

An appeals court found that Section 230 doesn’t prevent Facebook from getting sued for allegedly having a discriminatory ad algorithm. An appeals court found that Section 230 doesn’t prevent Facebook ...