Facebook’s Suicide Monitoring Algorithms Criticised By Medical Experts

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It took almost five years, but Facebook has done enough of its own refining to determine whether someone is at risk of suicide based entirely on social-media behaviour. This raises alarm bells for those in the medical community who believe that Facebook is behaving unethically and inaccurately, and may be causing more harm than good.

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