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Facebook will examine whether it treats Black users differently

Black users, and even some of the company's own employees, have accused the social media giant of racial bias for years.
Facebook's parent company, Meta, is studying whether its platforms treat users differently based on race.

The parent company of Facebook and Instagram is looking into whether its platforms treat users differently based on race, after years of criticism particularly from Black users and its own employees about racial bias.

"There are a lot of members of systemically and historically marginalized communities who feel that their experience on our platforms is different," said Roy Austin Jr., vice president of civil rights at Meta, formerly known as

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