• @[email protected]
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      101 year ago

      It’s not about that actually, it’s discrimination.

      These people are still seeing ads, but not the ones which they need at their age

      • @[email protected]
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        151 year ago

        Yeah, I understand that, which brings up the second baffling point that someone went to facebook to search for insurance providers in the first place.

        • @[email protected]
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          -171 year ago

          You’re baffled people went on one of the most used website in the world to search for something. bruh…

          • @[email protected]
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            161 year ago

            Yes, I am baffled that anyone, with Facebook’s reputation for ads, selling personal information, etc, would choose to search for insurance carriers there instead of any number of other options that aren’t that big a leap away from Facebook, bruh.

            • @[email protected]
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              21 year ago

              There are so many people who literally think Facebook is the internet and every other website is just a really personalized facebook page.

              • @[email protected]
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                11 year ago

                I’ll have to take your word for that. As I said to someone else, if she were on AOL I could totally see that, but it’s more of stretch for me to believe it with Facebook.

      • chiisana
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        As much as most don’t like Facebook, I honestly don’t see why Facebook is at fault here. They’ve got a platform where advertisers come on, say “I want to sell ads to people Ages X-Y , Gender A, in Geography I, J and K”, and they serve ads accordingly. What are they supposed to do? Tell the advertisers “No no no, you need to also pay for ads on these other demographics that you explicitly excluded”? The plaintiff should be suing advertisers, not Facebook, for intentionally not targeting them.

    • @recapitated
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      That’s how I shop. I scroll through loads of random thoughts and pictures by friends and family and people I barely know until someone tries to sell me insurance. What’s the problem exactly?

  • @[email protected]
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    So, is it actual discrimination, or is it just that their data Facebook has shows that other ads are better suited to them, statistically, in terms of profit? I’m sure all sorts of patterns show up in the quantity of data they have, and algorithms show ads based on these patterns. It’s possible that gender is a factor, but it seems just as likely that there are other patterns (perhaps some common to a given gender) that factor into this result.

    Edit: To be clear, I did not read the article, because I don’t actually care that much. I just find statistics and patterns interesting. Having worked in insurance in the past, I was always curious about which exact information factored into premiums, and in what way. I know everything from marital status, to job, education, location, age, credit score, and much more, factored into decisions, and not always in ways you may expect – all based on statistics.

  • @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    I find this very unconvincing. Ads don’t offer a service. They’re not like a search engine or the likes. So why should ads have to target all groups equally?

  • AutoTL;DRB
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    31 year ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    Facebook can be sued over allegations that its advertising algorithm is discriminatory, a California state court of appeals ruled last week.

    The decision stems from a class action lawsuit filed against Facebook in 2020, which accused the company of not showing insurance ads to women and older people in violation of civil rights laws.

    In a September 21st ruling, the appeals court reversed a previous decision that said Section 230 (which protects online platforms from legal liability if users post illegal content) shields Facebook from accountability.

    The appeals court concluded that the case “adequately” alleges that Facebook “knew insurance advertisers intentionally targeted its ads based on users’ age and gender” in violation of the Unruh Civil Rights Act.

    It also found significant similarities between Facebook’s ad platform and Roommates.com, a service that exceeded the protections of Section 230 by including drop-down menus with options that allowed for discrimination.

    Facebook’s ad algorithm has faced scrutiny for years now, with a federal lawsuit filed in 2018 accusing the company of enabling housing discrimination and subsequent studies backing up these claims.


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  • @[email protected]
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    21 year ago

    You buy ads with the target demographic criteria. That’s often people with jobs, newlyweds etc.

    It’s not an “equal right” to be targeted by the ads.