"Facebook bans 'deepfake' videos in run-up to US election", 7 January 2020

[Facebook's] policy explicitly covers only misinformation produced using AI... “shallow fakes” – videos made using conventional editing tools – are still allowed on the platform... The most damaging examples of manipulated media in recent years have tended to be created using simple video-editing tools... The company... has a separate policy that allows any content that breaks its other rules to remain online if it is judged “newsworthy”... [A]ll content posted by politicians is automatically seen as such... “If someone makes a statement or shares a post which breaks our community standards we will still allow it on our platform if we believe the public interest in seeing it outweighs the risk of harm,” said Nick Clegg, Facebook’s vice-president of global affairs and communications... “From now on we will treat speech from politicians as newsworthy content that should, as a general rule, be seen and heard.” That policy means that even an AI-created deepfake video expressly intended to mislead could still remain on the social network, if it was posted by a politician... Facebook did not give a reason as to why it limited its policy exclusively to those videos manipulated using AI tools, but it is likely that the company wanted to avoid putting itself in a situation where it had to make subjective decisions about intent or truth.