Incident 213: Facebook’s Political Ad Detection Reportedly Showed High and Geographically Uneven Error Rates

Description: The performance of Facebook’s political ad detection was revealed by researchers to be imprecise, uneven across countries in errors, and inadequate for preventing systematic violations of political advertising policies.

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Alleged: Facebook developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Facebook users.

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Incident ID
213
Report Count
5
Incident Date
2020-07-01
Editors
Khoa Lam

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