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Facebook users of minority groups

Incidents Harmed By

Incident 934 Report
HUD charges Facebook with enabling housing discrimination

2018-08-13

In March 2019 the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development charged Facebook with violating the Fair Housing Act by allowing real estate sellers to target advertisements in a discriminatory manner.

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Incident 1632 Report
Facebook’s Hate Speech Detection Algorithms Allegedly Disproportionately Failed to Remove Racist Content towards Minority Groups

2021-11-21

Facebook’s hate-speech detection algorithms was found by company researchers to have under-reported less common but more harmful content that was more often experienced by minority groups such as Black, Muslim, LGBTQ, and Jewish users.

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Other entities that are related to the same incident. For example, if the developer of an incident is this entity but the deployer is another entity, they are marked as related entities.
 

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Facebook

Incidents involved as both Developer and Deployer
  • Incident 93
    4 Reports

    HUD charges Facebook with enabling housing discrimination

  • Incident 163
    2 Reports

    Facebook’s Hate Speech Detection Algorithms Allegedly Disproportionately Failed to Remove Racist Content towards Minority Groups

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non-American-born Facebook users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 93
    4 Reports

    HUD charges Facebook with enabling housing discrimination

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Entity

non-Christian Facebook users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 93
    4 Reports

    HUD charges Facebook with enabling housing discrimination

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Entity

Facebook users interested in accessibility

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 93
    4 Reports

    HUD charges Facebook with enabling housing discrimination

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Facebook users interested in Hispanic culture

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 93
    4 Reports

    HUD charges Facebook with enabling housing discrimination

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Entity

Facebook users

Incidents Harmed By
  • Incident 163
    2 Reports

    Facebook’s Hate Speech Detection Algorithms Allegedly Disproportionately Failed to Remove Racist Content towards Minority Groups

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