Incident #317·AI Safety & Failures
Bug in Facebook’s Anti-Spam Filter Allegedly Blocked Legitimate Posts about COVID-19
Explainability
Description
Facebook was reported by users for blocking posts of legitimate news about the coronavirus pandemic, allegedly due to a bug in an anti-spam system.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
Alleged Developers
Harmed Parties
- facebook-users-posting-legitimate-covid-19-news
- facebook-users
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
MIT Risk Profile
AIUnintentionalPost-deployment
Topics
Explainability
Source
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