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Facebook Feed Algorithms Exposed Low Digitally Skilled Users to More Disturbing Content

AI Incident Database · article · Nov 3, 2021 · UTC

Facebook feed algorithms were known by internal research to have harmed people having low digital literacy by exposing them to disturbing content they did not know how to avoid or monitor.

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incident-report
evidenceStatus
reported
region
Global

Reported occurrence date: 2019-11-15T00:00:00.000Z

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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