Facebook banning ‘deepfakes’ ahead of 2020 election

Published January 7, 2020 5:50pm ET



Facebook is targeting deceptively edited videos known as “deepfakes” ahead of the 2020 election.

Facebook Vice President of Global Policy Monika Bickert announced the new rules in a blog post on the social media company’s website on Monday. The updated rules target videos edited in such a way that the “average person” may be fooled into “thinking that a subject of the video said words that they did not actually say.”

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