Jessica Guynn

In an acknowledgment of complaints of censorship and harassment, Facebook and Instagram are studying racial bias against Black and Hispanic users.

Facebook and Instagram to study racial bias against African Americans, Hispanics on their platforms

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Facebook is forming new internal teams dedicated to studying its main social network and Instagram for racial bias, in particular for whether its algorithms trained using artificial intelligence adversely affect Black, Hispanic, and other underrepresented groups.

Facebook will study whether its algorithms are racially biased

Facebook management has ignored and stymied its own researchers who have displayed racial bias in the company's content moderation systems.

Facebook ignored racial bias research, employees say

Facebook says it is setting up new internal teams to look for racial bias in the algorithms that drive its main social network and Instagram.

Facebook says it will look for racial bias in its algorithms

Facebook and Instagram plan to examine how Black and minority users are affected by the company's algorithms as compared with white users

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The social network and Instagram, its photo service, are creating new teams to tackle this issue.