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Facebook Struggles to Control Misinformation: A Case Study on COVID-19 and Voting Claims

This incident highlights the challenges in maintaining trustworthy AI for social media platforms. Facebook's fact-checking system failed to prevent false claims about COVID-19 and voting from spreading. Ready to help us build guardrails for AI that promote harm prevention? JOIN US This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM).

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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

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