AI Incident Database - Incident 1268
Source evidence cited by public records. This page shows where the source is used, its trust tier, and when it was last checked in the seed.
Records using this source
- scammers
entity | 4 July 2026 | 70%
scammers - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- social-media-users
entity | 2 July 2026 | 70%
social-media-users - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- epistemic-integrity
entity | 30 June 2026 | 70%
epistemic-integrity - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- meta-users
entity | 23 June 2026 | 70%
meta-users - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- unnamed-royal-canadian-air-force-recruiter
entity | 31 May 2026 | 70%
unnamed-royal-canadian-air-force-recruiter - organisation named in the AI Incident Database harm index.
- Meta's Automated Ad and Targeting Systems Reportedly Enabled Large-Scale Fraud Revenue
event | 31 May 2026 | 82%
Internal Meta documents reviewed by Reuters reportedly show that the company's automated ad and targeting systems generated major revenue from fraudulent ads and exposed users to billions of scam impressions daily. Enforcement was limited by internal revenue guardrails. In one example, a Royal Canadian Air Force recruiter's account was hacked and used to run a crypto scam that defrauded several colleagues after repeated reports allegedly went unanswered.