Incident 197: Facebook Internally Reported Failure of Ranking Algorithm, Exposing Harmful Content to Viewers over Months
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A group of Facebook engineers identified a “massive ranking failure” that exposed as much as half of all News Feed views to potential “integrity risks” over the past six months, according to an internal report on the incident obtained by Th…
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For the last six months, Facebook engineers have been seeing intermittent spikes in misinformation and other harmful content on News Feed, with posts that would usually be demoted by the company's algorithms being boosted by as much as 30% …
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Meta has admitted that a Facebook bug led to a 'surge of misinformation' and other harmful content appearing in users' News Feeds between October and March.
According to an internal document, engineers at Mark Zuckerberg's firm failed to su…
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Facebook engineers have belatedly uncovered a significant flaw in its downranking system to filter out harmful content, which exposed up to half of all News Feed views to potential ’integrity risks’ for six months.
Reports in The Verge sugg…