Incident 580: Alleged Gender Discrimination in Facebook Job Ads Algorithm
Description: Facebook's ad delivery algorithm allegedly disproportionately showed job advertisements to one gender. Despite claims of non-discrimination, the algorithm's actions seem to perpetuate societal biases, which in turn could potentially limit opportunities for certain groups and hinder gender equity in the workplace.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Meta developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Women , Underrepresented genders , General public and Advertisers.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
580
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2023-06-12
Editors
Daniel Atherton
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
globalwitness.org · 2023
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All the ads that we posted were shown - via one of Facebook’s mandatory ad campaign objectives – to users that Facebook thought were most likely to click on the website they linked to. And for all the ads, we specified only the following: t…
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