Incident #84·Misinformation
Tiny Changes Let False Claims About COVID-19, Voting Evade Facebook Fact Checks
Description
Avaaz, an international advocacy group, released a review of Facebook's misinformation identifying software showing that the labeling process failed to label 42% of false information posts, most surrounding COVID-19 and the 2020 USA Presidential Election.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
Alleged Developers
Harmed Parties
- facebook-users
- facebook-users-interested-in-covid-information
- facebook-users-interested-in-the-us-presidential-election
Classification
Risk Domain
MisinformationRisk Subdomain
3.1. False or misleading information
MIT Risk Profile
AIUnintentionalPost-deployment
Source
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