Facebook's Job Ad Algorithm Allegedly Biased against Older and Female Workers
December 1, 2022
Facebook's algorithm was alleged in a complaint by Real Women in Trucking to have selectively shown job advertisements disproportionately against older and female workers in favor of younger men for blue-collar positions.
- Alleged deployer
- meta-platforms, facebook
- Alleged developer
- meta-platforms, facebook
- Alleged harmed parties
- real-women-in-trucking, older-female-blue-collar-workers
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/416
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