What they're saying: "Because of this ground-breaking lawsuit, Meta will — for the first time — change its ad delivery system to address algorithmic discrimination," U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Damian Williams said in a statement.

Unlikethehuman-laborcurationprocessesoftheearlyInternetthatledtothecreationofonlinedirectoriessuchasLycosandYahoo!,inthecurrentInternetenvironment,informationaccesshasbeenlefttothecomplexalgorithmsofmachinestomakeselectionsandprioritizeresultsforusers.