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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...