Incident 284: Facebook’s Automated Removal of Content Featuring Nudity-Containing Artworks Denounced as Censorship

Description: Facebook’s removal of posts featuring renowned artworks by many historical artists and their promotional content due to nudity via both automated and human-moderated means were condemned by critics, such as museums and tourism boards, as cultural censorship and prevention of artwork promotion.

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Alleged: Facebook developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed museums on Facebook , Facebook users interested in arts and Facebook users.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
284
Report Count
6
Incident Date
2018-05-01
Editors
Khoa Lam

Variants

A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.