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Oversight Board calls on Meta to rewrite ‘incoherent’ rules against faked videos
Meta's Oversight Board calls on Facebook to craft better rules in light of a faked video of President Biden and his granddaughter.
A short, edited version of the video removes visual evidence of the sticker, setting the clip to a song with sexual lyrics and looping it to depict Biden inappropriately touching the young woman. Beyond expanding its manipulated media policy, the Oversight Board suggested that Meta add labels to altered videos flagging them as such instead of relying on fact-checkers, a process the group criticizes as “asymmetric depending on language and market.” But even as new technologies enable dangerous falsehoods to scale, social media companies have quietly slashed their investments in trust and safety and turned away from what once appeared to be a concerted effort to stamp out misinformation.
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