Researchers tested for bias in Facebook’s algorithm by purchasing ads promoting for-profit colleges and studying who saw them. Facebook’s advertising algorithm disproportionately targets Black users ...

Facebook's algorithm in recommending job ads to users constitutes indirect discrimination by gender, according to France's equalities regulator, in a new decision from a European country that holds ...

(CNN)Facebook-parent Meta is facing four new complaints from human rights groups in Europe alleging that the algorithm it uses to target users with companies' job advertisements is discriminatory, ...

Facebook does not rank the order of their ad’s appearance (on the newsfeed) based purely on the amount of cash an advertiser puts behind them. Facebook charge advertisers every time a user sees their ...

0:33 Facebook committing to new privacy measures for messenger Facebook was charged with discrimination by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development because of its ad-targeting system. HUD ...

Editor’s Note: This story, originally published in February 2025, is part of ‘Systems Error,’ a series by CNN’s As Equals, investigating how your gender shapes your life online. For information about ...