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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.

Severity: HighLack of capability or robustness

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