WF-VVKEW6
Facebook's AI-Supported Moderation Failed to Classify Terrorist Content in East African Languages
Facebook's system involving algorithmic content moderation for East African languages was reportedly failing to identify violating content on the platform such as mistakenly classifying non-terrorist content.
- Date it happened
- 2015-06-01
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