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Facebook Issues New Rules On Deepfake Videos, Targeting Misinformation

Facebook Issues New Rules On Deepfake Videos, Targeting Misinformation Enlarge this image toggle caption Richard Drew/AP Richard Drew/AP Updated at 11:40 a.m. Facebook's new ban targets videos that are manipulated to make it appear someone said words they didn't actually say. In its announcement, Facebook laid out two main criteria for banning deepfake videos: "It has been edited or synthesized — beyond adjustments for clarity or quality — in ways that aren't apparent to an average person and would likely mislead someone into thinking that a subject of the video said words that they did not actually say. In two high-profile cases from last summer, misleading videos featured House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Facebook's own CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, in highly manipulated footage.

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