Facebook's AI-Supported Moderation Failed to Classify Terrorist Content in East African Languages
Description
Facebook's system involving algorithmic content moderation for East African languages was reportedly failing to identify violating content on the platform such as mistakenly classifying non-terrorist content.
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Alleged Deployers
Alleged Developers
Harmed Parties
- facebook-users-speaking-east-african-languages
- facebook-users-in-east-africa
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
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Source Reports(2 total)
Study: Facebook fails to catch East Africa extremist content
Under-Moderated, Unhinged and Ubiquitous: Al-Shabaab and the Islamic State Networks on Facebook: Why Al-Shabaab and Islamic State Pages and Profiles in East African Languages Continue to Plague Facebook