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Discrimination in online ad delivery

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

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            Communications of the ACM  Volume 56, Issue 5
            May 2013
            90 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/2447976
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