Variance Reduction System, imposed by the settlement in United States v. Meta Platforms (S.D.N.Y.), verified by an independent reviewer

remedy · p2026-09-07-037 · validated

the average daily active users in the U.S. and Canada were approximately 195 million

tech: facebook-ad-delivery
acts on: Facebook's ad delivery model skewing who saw housing and employment ads by race and sex despite identical targeting
the remedy: Variance Reduction System, imposed by the settlement in United States v. Meta Platforms (S.D.N.Y.), verified by an independent reviewer
from: 2023-01-06
region: US
people: 195,000,000 daily active users in the US and Canada (proxy for people) (2021-12)
effect: 93.5 percent (2023-08-31) — share of US housing ads whose delivery variance by sex was 10% or less, independently recalculated and verified — against a required metric of 84.8%
source kind: primary
the statistic: Guidehouse Inc., the court-approved independent reviewer, verified Meta's compliance report for 1 May–31 August 2023: for housing ads with at least 300 impressions, 93.5% met the ≤10% sex-variance threshold (metric 84.8%) and 80.1% met the ≤10% estimated race/ethnicity threshold (metric 74.0%); Guidehouse's independent recalculation differed from Meta's by zero percent.
source: https://www.justice.gov/crt/media/1328211/dl
proposed by: researcher (opus), brief 2026-09-06 second harvest, feeds-ads-moderation
received: 2026-09-06T13:34:02-04:00
harvest report: impacts/harvest/2026-09-07-feeds-ads-moderation.md

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