New study shows that Facebook's job ad algorithm still discriminates based on gender

Apr 11 2021 by Mashable

 

Facebook isn't supposed to let advertisers target by things like age or gender for employment ads anymore, but a new study showed that the social network's ad algorithm is doing it anyway.

More than two years after Facebook disabled that particular feature for housing and employment listings, researchers at the University of Southern California found that certain job listings mysteriously still show a noticeable skew in who sees themThe study's findings would be illegal under federal...

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