BiasMedium
Facebook Feed Algorithms Exposed Low Digitally Skilled Users to More Disturbing Content
- Occurred
- Nov 15, 2019
- Published
- Nov 23, 2021
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Facebook feed algorithms were known by internal research to have harmed people having low digital literacy by exposing them to disturbing content they did not know how to avoid or monitor.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- low digitally skilled Facebook users
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Algorithmic harm targeting vulnerable users based on digital literacy constitutes a bias and disparate impact issue.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8