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NP/AP say Meta urged to rethink policy on altered media

2024-02-06 09:14 ET - In the News

The National Post reports in its Tuesday, Feb. 6, edition that an oversight board is criticizing Facebook owner Meta's policies regarding manipulated media as "incoherent" and insufficient to address the flood of on-line disinformation that already has begun to target elections across the globe this year. An Associated Press dispatch to the Post reports that the quasi-independent board on Monday said its review of an altered video of U.S. President Joe Biden that spread on Facebook exposed gaps in the policy. The board said Meta should expand the policy to focus not only on videos generated with artificial intelligence, but on media regardless of how it was created. That includes fake audio recordings, which already have convincingly impersonated political candidates in the U.S. and elsewhere. Meta also should clarify the harms it is trying to prevent and should label images, videos and audio clips as manipulated instead of removing the posts altogether, the Meta Oversight Board said. The board's feedback reflects the intense scrutiny that is facing many tech companies for their handling of election falsehoods in a year when voters in more than 50 countries will go to the polls.

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