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Facebook’s Automated Content Moderation Tool Flagged a Post Containing Parts of the Declaration of Independence as Hate Speech by Mistake

Occurred
Jul 2, 2018
Published
Jul 5, 2018
Source
AI Incident Database

Summary

Facebook’s content moderation algorithm was acknowledged by the company to have flagged excerpts of the Declaration of Independence posted by a small newspaper in Texas as hate speech by mistake.

Developers

  • Facebook

Deployers

  • Facebook

Harmed parties

  • The Vindicator

Classification

Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%

Rationale: Automated moderation tool misclassified historical text as hate speech, indicating AI content filtering failure.

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

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