AI incident
Ad-delivery algorithm enabled housing discrimination
Meta · 2022
Organisation
Meta
Year
2022
Failure mode
Discriminatory targeting
Severity
critical
Domain
Essential public services / benefits
Agentic
Yes — an AI system acting, not just advising
Source
DOJ/HUD, 2022
What happened
Ad optimisation skewed delivery by protected attributes; DOJ/HUD settlement and a redesign.
What would have prevented it
Fairness constraints on delivery + ongoing audit
Requirements this maps to
Editorial cross-reference from our prevention note — it is not a finding that any law was breached.