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Facebook’s Political Ad Detection Reportedly Showed High and Geographically Uneven Error Rates
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.
- Date it happened
- 2020-07-01
- Organisation involved
- Product, system or model
- Facebook's political ad detection and policy enforcement systems are ineffective. Globally, Facebook made the wrong decision for 83% of the ads that had not been declared as political by their adverti
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