Facebook vetoes deepfakes on its platform

Facebook's influence in the past American elections remains a topic of discussion. In addition, the poor performance and responsibility shown by the firm does not help improve its image. Now they announce a change of importance in the face of this year's elections. Since deepfakes are going to be banned on your platform. This has already been confirmed.

Facebook vetoes deepfakes on its platform

Although as in any news on the social network, there are nuances. Since all will be eliminated, except those satirical or humorous. These deepfakes will be kept on the social network.

Deepfakes ban

It has long been feared that deepfakes will be used for malicious purposes, such as pretending that a person has made statements that are not real, or that are potentially harmful. Especially at an election time it can be very serious. In this way, Facebook follows in the footsteps of other platforms such as Twitter in its fight against deepfakes.

It is a notable change, since the social network thus takes an active role. So far they have made few changes, especially in terms of ads or political publications have had a lot of wide sleeves, too much for some.

Facebook will collaborate with Reuters among others to fight these deepfakes, as has been made known. An important announcement for the social network, but which is now forced to keep this promise and work correctly to end this content on its platform. We will see if they succeed or not.

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