Discrimination through optimization: How Facebook’s ad delivery can lead to skewed outcomes

Ad-delivery is controlled by the advertising platform (eg. Facebook) and researchers have found evidence for particular ad delivery skewing along racial lines for housing ads and for jobs (job ads for janitors and taxi drivers were shown to a higher number of minorities compared to white users).

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