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Tiny Changes Let False Claims About COVID-19, Voting Evade Facebook Fact Checks
- Occurred
- Oct 9, 2020
- Published
- Oct 9, 2020
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Avaaz, an international advocacy group, released a review of Facebook's misinformation identifying software showing that the labeling process failed to label 42% of false information posts, most surrounding COVID-19 and the 2020 USA Presidential Election.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- Facebook users
- Facebook users interested in COVID information
- Facebook users interested in the US Presidential Election
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Facebook's AI labeling system failed to detect misinformation, representing a technology failure in content moderation.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8