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SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE
Facebook Mistakenly Blocked Small Business Ads
Facebook’s AI mistakenly blocked advertisements by small and struggling businesses, after the company allegedly leaned more on algorithms to monitor ads on the platform with little review from human moderators.
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- incident-report
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- reported
- region
- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2020-11-11T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2020-11-26T00:00:00.000Z
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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