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Amazon's Alexa fumbles its facts by falsely claiming the 2020 presidential election was stolen (www.businessinsider.com)
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Amazon's Alexa fumbles its facts by falsely claiming the 2020 presidential election was stolen::Alexa cited Rumble to claim the 2020 election was "stolen by a massive amount of election fraud," The Washington Post reported.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is the best summary I could come up with:

President Joe Biden defeated Donald Trump in the November 2020 presidential election with 306 electoral college votes.

Alexa also told users the 2020 election was "notorious for many incidents of irregularities and indications pointing to electoral fraud taking place in major metro centers," the Post reported, adding that Alexa had cited newsletter service Substack.

A spokesperson for Amazon told Insider: "These responses were errors that were delivered a small number of times, and quickly fixed when brought to our attention."

"We continually audit and improve the systems we have in place for detecting and blocking inaccurate content," the spokesperson added.

After The Post approached Amazon for comment, Alexa began to decline to answer if the 2020 election had been stolen, the publication said.

The new report is likely to bolster concerns about technology's role in the spread of misinformation, something officials have been increasingly worried about ahead of the 2024 election.

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