#LekkiMassacre: Why Facebook labelled content from October 20 incident ‘false’

October 21, 2020

Facebook incorrectly labeled content pertaining to the Lekki Massacre incident between #EndSARS protestors and the Nigerian army as false. This raises concerns about the need for safe, secure, and trustworthy AI governance. The HISPI Project Cerebellum TAIM invites you to join us in mapping such incidents and shaping guardrails for AI to prevent harm.

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MAP 1.6 — similarity 0.615, rank 1. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MEASURE 2.6 — similarity 0.614, rank 2. TAIM detail and related incidents →
MEASURE 2.10 — similarity 0.609, rank 3. TAIM detail and related incidents →

Alleged deployer: facebook
Alleged developer: facebook
Alleged harmed parties: facebook-users, facebook-users-interested-in-the-lekki-massacre-incident

Source

Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/82

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.

Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide

We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.