A European human rights body has ruled that Facebook’s algorithm shows gender bias when promoting job advertisements, marking what activists say is a crucial step in holding big tech companies ...

A recent study conducted by university researchers in 2024 revealed that Facebook’s advertising algorithm may be disproportionately targeting Black users with ads for for-profit colleges. This finding ...

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 ...

Facebook's job advert targeting system appears to discriminate based on gender and age, a non-profit campaign group has said. Global Witness said it investigated the system with unpublished and ...

Editor’s Note: This story is part of ‘Systems Error’, a series by CNN’s As Equals, investigating how your gender shapes your life online. For information about how CNN As Equals is funded and more, ...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In a settlement announced by the Department of Justice on ...