"We will find you: How a flawed algorithm terrorized welfare recipients
An automated welfare fraud detection system in Australia falsely accused hundreds of thousands of innocent people of theft, leading to multiple suicides and costing taxpayers $1.8 billion in settlements.
As reported in Don Moynihan's analysis, from 2016 to 2020 the "Robodebt" system used faulty a…
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