Facebook To Crack Down On Election Year Deepfakes
Facebook is now starting to remove media that’s been manipulated and could be misleading, including deepfakes. Facebook has routinely come under pressure of late for taking a different stance to other social media platforms when it comes to stemming the flow of disinformation. Manipulated videos now appear to be one of the few exceptions. Facebook has continuously defended the right for people to post whatever they want with limited intervention. This even includes information that might be misleading, even if it’s a paid-for ad, and even if that misleading paid-for ad is from a politician....