Facebook's Automated Moderation Allowed Ads Threatening Election Workers to be Posted
December 1, 2022
Facebook's automated moderating system failed to flag and allowed ads containing explicit violent language against election workers to be published.
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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/419
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Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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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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