https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1904.02095/Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.enMon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMThttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21786974urn:hackerpapers:mention:1904.02095:21786974Sat, 14 Dec 2019 00:36:27 GMT<p>Author of the underlying study here. Facebook has been insisting that non-discrimination should be the responsibility of the purchasers, but we&#x27;ve shown over [0] and over [1] again [2] that even when the advertiser targets all groups proportionally (no misuse of advertising options), Facebook subselects who to show their ads to in a skewed way, leaving the advertiser and the users no recourse. [0] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1904.02095.pdf [1] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.04255.pdf [2] https://sapiezynski.com/papers/sapiezynski2019algorithms.pdf</p><p><a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1904.02095/">Paper and discussion history</a>. A mention is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CYhttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19572191urn:hackerpapers:submission:1904.02095:19572191Thu, 04 Apr 2019 13:46:21 GMT<p>Discrimination through optimization: How FB’s ad delivery can skew outcomes</p><p></p><p>3 points; 1 discussion reply on HN. <a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1904.02095/">Paper and source history</a>. A submission is not an endorsement.</p>cs.CY