We repeated our 2016 test to figure out whether Facebook was adequately policing itself. It wasn’t.
by Ariana Tobin
by Ariana Tobin
Last week, we bought more than a dozen housing ads excluding
categories of people explicitly protected by the Fair Housing Act of
1968.
Were these actual ads? No. And as someone who’s spent the past month
on a New York City apartment hunt, I’m pretty confident that no one
would mistake our “real estate company” for an actual brokerage.
But here’s the question: could they have been real? Yes — and our
ability to limit the audience by race, religion, and gender — among
other legally protected attributes — points to the same problem my
colleagues Terry Parris Jr. and Julia Angwin reported out a year ago,
exciting much outrage from people who care about fixing discriminatory housing practices.
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Source: ProPublica
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