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.
Alleged deployer
facebook
Alleged developer
facebook
Alleged harmed parties
facebook-users

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Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/419

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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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