Companies use Facebook’s advertising algorithms to discriminate

It is against the law to discriminate against workers older than 40 when you’re hiring and recruiting. But a recent investigation by ProPublica and The New York Times – which spun off from those organizations’ investigations into the role social media and advertising algorithms played in spreading false, Russian propaganda during the 2016 election – shows that Facebook, Verizon, Amazon, UPS and others are using Facebook’s advertising algorithms to do just that.If yo