Sunday, 19 April, 2026
AI puts "primate" label on Facebook video of Black men, company apologises
By Basit Ansari
<p>Users who watched a video featuring Black men in altercations with White police officers on Facebook received a social media firm's prompt asking if they would like to "keep seeing videos about Primates". When reported, FB apologised for the "unacceptable error", and is looking into and disabling the AI-powered feature that caused it. Dated 27 June, 2020, the video was uploaded by Daily Mail, and had no relation to any primates or monkeys.</p>
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