Bug in Instagram’s “Related Hashtags” Algorithm Allegedly Caused Disproportionate Treatment of Political Hashtags
Date: 2020-08-05
Affected: Instagram
Attack vector: other
Category: real-world
Severity: High

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #331: Bug in Instagram’s “Related Hashtags” Algorithm Allegedly Caused Disproportionate Treatment of Political Hashtags. Alleged deployer/developer: Instagram. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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