Amazon’s Search and Recommendation Algorithms Found by Auditors to Have Boosted Products That Contained Vaccine Misinformation
Date: 2021-01-21
Affected: Amazon
Attack vector: misinformation
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #139: Amazon’s Search and Recommendation Algorithms Found by Auditors to Have Boosted Products That Contained Vaccine Misinformation. Alleged deployer/developer: Amazon. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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Architectural layers (MAESTRO):