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Facebook "News Feed" Allegedly Boosted Misinformation and Violating Content Following Use of MSI Metric
After the “News Feed” algorithm had been overhauled to boost engagement between friends and family in early 2018, its heavy weighting of re-shared content was alleged found by company researchers to have pushed content creators to reorient their posts towards outrage and sensationalism, causing a proliferation of misinformation, toxicity, and violent content.
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2018-10-01T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2021-09-15T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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