WF-DJZVB8
Amazon’s Search and Recommendation Algorithms Found by Auditors to Have Boosted Products That Contained Vaccine Misinformation
Evidence of the "filter-bubble effect" were found by vaccine-misinformation researchers in Amazon's recommendations, where its algorithms presented users who performed actions on misinformative products with more misinfomative products.
- Date it happened
- 2021-01-21
- Organisation involved
- Amazon
- Product, system or model
- recommender and search algorithm for Amazon
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