Incident 316: Facebook Ad-Approval Algorithm Allegedly Missed Fraudulent Ads via Simple URL Checks

Description: Facebook’s advertisement-approval algorithm was reported by a security analyst to have neglected simple checks for domain URLs, leaving its users at risk of fraudulent ads.

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

Incident Stats

Incident ID
316
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2016-06-02
Editors
Khoa Lam
Bait and Switch: The Failure of Facebook Advertising — An OSINT Investigation
medium.com · 2016

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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.