Social problems exist. Sexism, social stigmatization, crime and other problems have always plagued humanity.

Increasingly, however, organizations are calling on Google to solve or help solve these social problems, usually at the expense of the quality of the company’s own products.

Here are a few examples.

Sexism

Carnegie Mellon University and the International Computer Science Institute created software called AdFisher, which analyzes Google ad targeting, including job postings. They found that male users were shown ads for high-paying executive jobs more often than women were.

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