Incident #82·Misinformation
#LekkiMassacre: Why Facebook labelled content from October 20 incident ‘false’
Description
Facebook incorrectly labels content relating to an incident between #EndSARS protestors and the Nigerian army as misinformation.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
Alleged Developers
Harmed Parties
- facebook-users
- facebook-users-interested-in-the-lekki-massacre-incident
Classification
Risk Domain
MisinformationRisk Subdomain
3.1. False or misleading information
MIT Risk Profile
AIUnintentionalPost-deployment
Source
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