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Incident 268: Permanent Removal of Social Media Content via Automated Tools Allegedly Prevented Investigative Efforts

Description: Automated permanent removal of violating social media content, such as terrorism, violent extremism, and hate speech, without archival has allegedly hindered the potential use of this content for investigating serious crimes and hampered efforts in criminal accountability.

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Alleged: YouTube , Twitter and Facebook developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed victims of crimes documented on social media , investigative journalists , International Criminal Court investigators , International Court of Justice investigators and criminal investigators.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
268
Report Count
4
Incident Date
2020-03-16
Editors
Khoa Lam
Applied Taxonomies
GMF, MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified
Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
 

7.3. Lack of capability or robustness

Risk Domain

The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
 
  1. AI system safety, failures, and limitations

Entity

Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
 

AI

Timing

The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
 

Post-deployment

Intent

Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
 

Unintentional

Incident Reports

Reports Timeline

Incident Occurrence'Lost memories': War crimes evidence threatened by AI moderation+1
Social Media Platforms Remove War Crimes Evidence
AI: War crimes evidence erased by social media platforms
'Lost memories': War crimes evidence threatened by AI moderation

'Lost memories': War crimes evidence threatened by AI moderation

reuters.com

Social Media Platforms Remove War Crimes Evidence

Social Media Platforms Remove War Crimes Evidence

hrw.org

“Video Unavailable”

“Video Unavailable”

hrw.org

AI: War crimes evidence erased by social media platforms

AI: War crimes evidence erased by social media platforms

bbc.com

'Lost memories': War crimes evidence threatened by AI moderation
reuters.com · 2020

NEW YORK/AMMAN (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - From bombings and protests to the opening of a new health center, student journalist Baraa Razzouk has been documenting daily life in Idlib, Syria, for years, and posting the videos to his YouTu…

Social Media Platforms Remove War Crimes Evidence
hrw.org · 2020

Social media platforms are taking down online content they consider terrorist, violently extremist, or hateful in a way that prevents its potential use to investigate serious crimes, including war crimes, Human Rights Watch said in a report…

“Video Unavailable”
hrw.org · 2020

In recent years, social media platforms have been taking down online content more often and more quickly, often in response to the demands of governments, but in a way that prevents the use of that content to investigate people suspected of…

AI: War crimes evidence erased by social media platforms
bbc.com · 2023

Evidence of potential human rights abuses may be lost after being deleted by tech companies, the BBC has found.

Platforms remove graphic videos, often using artificial intelligence - but footage that may help prosecutions can be taken down …

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A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.

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