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Facebook's AI-Supported Moderation Failed to Classify Terrorist Content in East African Languages

Occurred
Jun 1, 2015
Published
Jun 14, 2022
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

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.

Developers

  • Facebook

Deployers

  • Facebook

Harmed parties

  • Facebook users speaking East African languages
  • Facebook users in East Africa

Classification

Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%

Rationale: AI moderation system failed to classify terrorist content in specific languages, representing a notable failure.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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