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Title I Of The Civil Rights Act In Contemporary Voting Rights Litigation, Helen L. Brewer
Title I Of The Civil Rights Act In Contemporary Voting Rights Litigation, Helen L. Brewer
Fordham Law Voting Rights and Democracy Forum
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De-Class-Ifying Microtargeted Political Advertising, Jacob Kovacs-Goodman
De-Class-Ifying Microtargeted Political Advertising, Jacob Kovacs-Goodman
Fordham Law Voting Rights and Democracy Forum
In contemporary American politics, Big Tech companies provide sophisticated advertising interfaces that enable anyone to target specific voters by demographic. These companies defend their tools as “neutral” to evade culpability for discriminatory ads. Yet, such microtargeted advertising presents a significant threat to democracy. This Article advances a possible two-pronged solution to bar online platforms from targeting political ads based on a user’s protected class. First, this Article promotes a largely unexplored tactic: extending Title II of the Civil Rights Act into the digital space so that behavior that would be impermissibly discriminatory offline is not permitted online. Second, this Article …