Independent News Sites Flagged as Spam by Facebook's AI Moderation System
June 12, 2024
Facebook's AI moderation system mistakenly flagged and removed legitimate news articles from independent local publishers as spam. This affected publishers worldwide, disrupting content distribution and impacting traffic. Despite attempts to appeal, many publishers received no response.
- Alleged deployer
- meta, facebook
- Alleged developer
- meta, facebook
- Alleged harmed parties
- the-record-argus, wlkp24.info, top-fight, noticias-maia, city-magazine, birkenhead-news, bishop's-stortford-independent, uk-defence-journal
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/789
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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