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Amazon Reportedly Recommends Explosive-Producing Ingredients as 'Frequently Bought Together' Items for Chemicals
Amazon was reported to have shown chemical combinations for producing explosives and incendiary devices as "frequently bought together" items via automated recommendation.
- Date it happened
- 2017-09-18
- Organisation involved
- Amazon
- Product, system or model
- Amazon recommendation algorithm
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