Incident 82: #LekkiMassacre: Why Facebook labelled content from October 20 incident ‘false’
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In October 2020, Facebook incorrectly labelled content from the #LekkiMassacre2020 incident as false. The incident consisted of an interaction #EndSARS protestors and the Nigerian army at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos, Nigeria. Images and videos posted on social media related to the event were marked as false by Facebook's fact-checking system, which is a hybrid system of human moderators, third-party fact checking organizations, and AI.
Short Description
Facebook incorrectly labels content relating to an incident between #EndSARS protestors and the Nigerian army as misinformation.
Severity
Moderate
Harm Type
Harm to social or political systems, Harm to civil liberties
AI System Description
Facebook's content moderation system consists of a hybrid system of AI and human moderators. The AI assists in dectecting hate speech, prioritizing, the queue to help moderators deal with sensitive content more quickly and detecting similar content to mark as containing 'false information'
System Developer
Sector of Deployment
Information and communication
Relevant AI functions
Perception, Cognition, Action
AI Techniques
machine learning, supervised learning, open-source
AI Applications
content moderation, recommendation engine
Location
Lagos, Nigeria
Named Entities
Facebook, #EndSARS, Nigerian Army, Nigeria
Technology Purveyor
Beginning Date
2020-10-21T07:00:00.000Z
Ending Date
2020-10-21T07:00:00.000Z
Near Miss
Unclear/unknown
Intent
Accident
Lives Lost
No
Data Inputs
user content (textposts, images, videos)
Incident Reports
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On Wednesday, October 21, 2020, several content containing images related to the unfortunate incident that occurred at the Lekki toll gate in Lagos, Nigeria on Tuesday were flagged as misinformation on Facebook and Instagram.
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