Lawsuit Alleges Facebook Violates Securities Law by Misrepresenting Impact of Algorithms on Children's Well-being - Harm Prevention in AI Incidents
April 29, 2021
The Ohio Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Facebook, claiming the company intentionally misled the public about its algorithm control and their impact on children's well-being. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help shape responsible AI? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- facebook, meta
- Alleged developer
- facebook, meta
- Alleged harmed parties
- facebook's-children-users, instagram's-children-users
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/534
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
When citing the database as a whole, please use:
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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