Incident 419: Facebook's Automated Moderation Allowed Ads Threatening Election Workers to be Posted

Description: Facebook's automated moderating system failed to flag and allowed ads containing explicit violent language against election workers to be published.

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

Incident Stats

Incident ID
419
Report Count
3
Incident Date
2022-12-01
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.