Facebook Changes Its Ad Tech to Stop Discrimination
Facebook Changes Its Ad Tech to Stop Discrimination
Business, Spoken · SpokenLayer
March 22, 20198m 32s
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Show Notes
On Tuesday, Facebook reached a historic settlement with civil rights groups that had accused the company of allowing advertisers to unlawfully discriminate against minorities, women, and older people by using the platform’s ad-targeting technology to exclude them from seeing ads for housing, jobs, and credit—three areas with legal protections for groups that have historically been disenfranchised.
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