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Discrimination in online ad delivery

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Communications of the ACM, Volume 56, Issue 5

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https://doi.org/10.1145/2447976.2447990

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Google ads, black names and white names, racial discrimination, and click advertising.

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May 2013

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DOI:10.1145/2447976

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