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YouTube Recommendations Allegedly Promoted Radicalizing Material Contributing to Terrorist Acts

AI Incident Database · article · Oct 3, 2022 · UTC

Family of Nohemi Gonzalez alleged YouTube recommendation systems led people to propaganda videos for the Islamic State which subsequently radicalized them to carry out the killing of 130 people in the 2015 Paris terrorist attack, including Ms. Gonzalez.

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incident-report
evidenceStatus
reported
region
Global

Reported occurrence date: 2015-11-13T00:00:00.000Z

Evidence & attribution

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

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