The company formerly known as Facebook has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Department of Justice resolving a lawsuit in which the government alleged the company’s housing-advertising system discriminated based on race, color, religion, sex, disability, familial status and national origin.
The lawsuit alleged Meta uses algorithms to determine which Facebook users receive housing ads, and those algorithms rely, in part, on characteristics protected under the Fair Housing Act.
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