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Author of the underlying study here.

Facebook has been insisting that non-discrimination should be the responsibility of the purchasers, but we've shown over [0] and over [1] again [2] that even when the advertiser targets all groups proportionally (no misuse of advertising options), Facebook subselects who to show their ads to in a skewed way, leaving the advertiser and the users no recourse.

[0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.02095.pdf

[1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.04255.pdf

[2] https://sapiezynski.com/papers/sapiezynski2019algorithms.pdf

parent sapski 6 years ago

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