Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body
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Re: Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body
#2Title is incorrect: human rights body
Re: Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body
#3> The Netherlands Institute for Human Rights said in a February 18 decision that Facebook’s algorithm reinforced gender stereotypes by mainly showing “typically female professions” to female Facebook users in the Netherlands and that Meta (META), the social platform’s owner, should have monitored and adjusted its algorithm to prevent that.
> For example, ads for mechanic positions were predominantly shown to men, while those for preschool teacher roles were primarily directed to women. Global Witness said its experiments in the Netherlands, France, India, Ireland, the United Kingdom and South Africa demonstrated that the algorithm perpetuated similar biases around the world. The non-profit’s investigation led to four complaints from the Dutch human rights group Bureau Clara Wichmann and the French organization Fondation des Femmes.
I don't think any of this should be illegal. I don't think anyone is meaningfully harmed by being algorithmically shown job ads stereotypical of one gender rather than another, and I have no problem with any organization at all that does this, whether it's Meta or anyone else. I do not agree with the position of any of these European human rights organizations, and I'd probably be in favor of reforming French anti-discrimination law to explicitly legalize what Meta is doing here.
Re: Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body
#4> The Netherlands Institute for Human Rights said in a February 18 decision that Facebook’s algorithm reinforced gender stereotypes by mainly showing “typically female professions” to female Facebook users in the Netherlands and that Meta (META), the social platform’s owner, should have monitored and adjusted its algorithm to prevent that. > For example, ads for mechanic positions were predominantly shown to men, whi…
Can you explain why you think this?
Re: Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body
#5Are these ads in the sense of unsolicited adverts, or is this some kind of job search engine where people are actively asking Facebook to find a job for them?
Re: Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body
#6> The Netherlands Institute for Human Rights said in a February 18 decision that Facebook’s algorithm reinforced gender stereotypes by mainly showing “typically female professions” to female Facebook users in the Netherlands and that Meta (META), the social platform’s owner, should have monitored and adjusted its algorithm to prevent that. > For example, ads for mechanic positions were predominantly shown to men, whi…
Well I don't really care what you think or agree with and I'm quite happy to see Meta reprimanded.
Since all you offered were your feelings, there isn't anything of substance to follow up on beyond that.
Re: Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body
#7Title is incorrect: human rights body
Unless it has changed, the max character length on a submission title is 80 characters, which this matches exactly. I assume "body" was dropped to make it fit.
Re: Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body
#8> The Netherlands Institute for Human Rights said in a February 18 decision that Facebook’s algorithm reinforced gender stereotypes by mainly showing “typically female professions” to female Facebook users in the Netherlands and that Meta (META), the social platform’s owner, should have monitored and adjusted its algorithm to prevent that. > For example, ads for mechanic positions were predominantly shown to men, whi…
Well I don't really care what you think or agree with and I'm quite happy to see Meta reprimanded. Since all you offered were your feelings, there isn't anything of substance to follow up on beyond that.
Are the anti-discrimination laws based on anything else than feelings of their proponents with regard to what is wrong and what is right?
If this sort of discrimination was economically ineffective, you would see the market itself slowly adjusting towards a more efficient equilibrium, even without explicit laws.
Re: Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body
#9> The Netherlands Institute for Human Rights said in a February 18 decision that Facebook’s algorithm reinforced gender stereotypes by mainly showing “typically female professions” to female Facebook users in the Netherlands and that Meta (META), the social platform’s owner, should have monitored and adjusted its algorithm to prevent that. > For example, ads for mechanic positions were predominantly shown to men, whi…
What is gained from allowing such bias?
Re: Facebook enables gender discrimination in job ads: European human rights body
#10Are these ads in the sense of unsolicited adverts, or is this some kind of job search engine where people are actively asking Facebook to find a job for them?
Why does that distinction matter?