Examples of Communities Being Impacted, sorted by category

Filter Bubbles, Fake News, Promoted Hateful content

Article about overall problem of dangerous speech online and content moderation, with examples from the US, India, Sri Lanka, and Myanmar
Facebook Fueled Anti-Refugee Attacks in Germany, New Research Suggests: AI-driven algorithms in social media distort perceptions of reality. They are predisposed to promote negative emotions and define social norms for a community; oppressed minorities are likely to be targets. We’ve seen this in the refugee-welcoming community of Altena where high facebook usage was correlated with violent acts.
German DHS report on same Indonesia and Myanmar
Sri Lanka bans Facebook after rumors lead to vigilante violence
India list of Hindu-Muslim couples leads to offline attacks
Polarized Online Spaces in Russia, Iran, Turkey, US vulnerable to right wing populists
Russia disinformation campaign in UKRAINE (post-revolution 2014 elections and on)
Rodrigo Duterte in the PHILIPPINES: 2016 elections: Architects of Networked Disinformation: Behind the Scenes of Troll Accounts and Fake News Production in the Philippines
Erdogan in Turkey
Jair Bolsonaro in BRASIL: report on misinformation during 2018 elections

Persecution of political opponents in the Ryazan region in Russia, the Ministry of Internal Affairs uses a mobile biometric system equipped with AI face recognition. This allows them to identify individuals at public events, which increases the likelihood that the police will be able to use this technology to identify and arrest political protesters.

Bots at the Gate
Less definitive examples of right-wing co-opting/playing mainstream news and/or algos Border hysteria 2018 (caravan nonsense) versus 90s border hysteria (pete wilson, minutemen, TV-news-based campaign to demonize “brown wave”