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Incident 2846 Reports
Facebook’s Automated Removal of Content Featuring Nudity-Containing Artworks Denounced as Censorship
2018-05-01
Facebook’s removal of posts featuring renowned artworks by many historical artists and their promotional content due to nudity via both automated and human-moderated means were condemned by critics, such as museums and tourism boards, as cultural censorship and prevention of artwork promotion.
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Facebook’s Political Ad Detection Reportedly Showed High and Geographically Uneven Error Rates
2020-07-01
The performance of Facebook’s political ad detection was revealed by researchers to be imprecise, uneven across countries in errors, and inadequate for preventing systematic violations of political advertising policies.
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Facebook Internally Reported Failure of Ranking Algorithm, Exposing Harmful Content to Viewers over Months
2021-10-01
Facebook's internal report showed an at-least six-month long alleged software bug that caused moderator-flagged posts and other harmful content to evade down-ranking filters, leading to surges of misinformation on users' News Feed.
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Facebook’s Hate Speech Detection Algorithms Allegedly Disproportionately Failed to Remove Racist Content towards Minority Groups
2021-11-21
Facebook’s hate-speech detection algorithms was found by company researchers to have under-reported less common but more harmful content that was more often experienced by minority groups such as Black, Muslim, LGBTQ, and Jewish users.
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