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External Evaluation of Discrimination Mitigation Efforts in Meta's Ad Delivery
Basileal Imana, Zeyu Shen, John Heidemann +1
The 2022 settlement between Meta and the U.S. Department of Justice to resolve allegations of discriminatory advertising resulted is a first-of-its-kind change to Meta's ad deliver…
On the Use of Proxies in Political Ad Targeting
Piotr Sapiezynski, Levi Kaplan, Alan Mislove +1
Detailed targeting of advertisements has long been one of the core offerings of online platforms. Unfortunately, malicious advertisers have frequently abused such targeting feature…
Auditing for Bias in Ad Delivery Using Inferred Demographic Attributes
Basileal Imana, Aleksandra Korolova, John Heidemann
Auditing social-media algorithms has become a focus of public-interest research and policymaking to ensure their fairness across demographic groups such as race, age, and gender in…
Auditing for Racial Discrimination in the Delivery of Education Ads
Basileal Imana, Aleksandra Korolova, John Heidemann
Digital ads on social-media platforms play an important role in shaping access to economic opportunities. Our work proposes and implements a new third-party auditing method that ca…
Discrimination through Image Selection by Job Advertisers on Facebook
Varun Nagaraj Rao, Aleksandra Korolova
Targeted advertising platforms are widely used by job advertisers to reach potential employees; thus issues of discrimination due to targeting that have surfaced have received wide…
Having your Privacy Cake and Eating it Too: Platform-supported Auditing of Social Media Algorithms for Public Interest
Basileal Imana, Aleksandra Korolova, John Heidemann
Social media platforms curate access to information and opportunities, and so play a critical role in shaping public discourse today. The opaque nature of the algorithms these plat…