“Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race” by Julia Angwin, ProPublica (2018).

Facebook – and other platforms like it – give advertisers an enormous slate of tools for precisely selecting an audience. It’s easy to see how this enormous breadth of data points could give rise to explicit or implicit discrimination. Who should get to decide what attributes advertisers can use for targeting? How should they make such decisions?

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