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).

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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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