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"We will find you: How a flawed algorithm terrorized welfare recipients
Wednesday June 25, 2025. 08:33 PM , from BoingBoing
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 algorithms to identify supposed welfare overpayments. — Read the rest The post "We will find you: How a flawed algorithm terrorized welfare recipients appeared first on Boing Boing.
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