Facebook Restricts Video Content, Gets Tough on ‘Deepfakes’

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As deceptively edited videos and memes go viral, the Internet’s leading social network has had to make a tough call as the 2020 election approaches.

Facebook’s Vice President of Global Policy Management Monika Bickert wrote a company blog “Enforcing Against Manipulated Media” on Jan 6. The blog was written to announce upcoming safeguards to protect against “people who engage in media manipulation in order to mislead.”

“Deepfakes” are part of a new wave of viral misinformation that Bickert wrote “can be made through simple technology like Photoshop or through sophisticated tools that use artificial intelligence or ‘deep learning’ techniques to create videos that distort reality.”

Conversation about the threat of “deepfakes” hit a fever pitch in late May 2019 when a slightly slowed down video of Speaker Nancy Pelosi went viral. A popular tech journalist and Recode’s co-founder Kara Swisher condemned Facebook for allowing the video to spread, saying…

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