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ProPublica / Ava Kofman and Ariana Tobin / Dec 13
“One reason for the persistent bias is that Facebook’s modified algorithm appears to rely on proxy characteristics that correlate with age or gender…. ‘Our research shows that simply removing a few protected features from an algorithm is unlikely to provide any meaningful protection against discrimination.'”