Along with its pursuit of Facebook advertisers, CWA said it hopes the EEOC will explore how Facebook’s algorithm could contribute to bias, a topic Facebook has also committed to study. — AFP
The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is pursuing allegations that several of Facebook’s advertisers broke the law by restricting job postings on the social network to people of certain ages or genders. The agency joins the Department of Justice and the Department of Housing and Urban Development in probing the realm of so-called digital discrimination.
In a series of July letters, the acting director of the EEOC’s Washington field office informed seven companies – including Capital One Financial Corp and Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s parent Enterprise Holdings – that the agency had found "reasonable cause” to believe they violated federal anti-discrimination law.
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