“Congress has, unfortunately, taken a laissez-faire approach to regulation of unfair and deceptive practices online ... The result is Big Tech failed to respond to the grave threats posed by deepfakes.'
Facebook Inc. drew fresh flak Wednesday on Capitol Hill, underscoring how lawmakers plan to keep Big Tech in their crosshairs in the new year.
“Congress has, unfortunately, taken a laissez-faire approach to regulation of unfair and deceptive practices online over the last decade, and platforms have let them flourish. The result is Big Tech failed to respond to the grave threats posed by deepfakes, as evidenced by Facebook scrambling to announce a new policy that strikes me as wholly inadequate.”
The congresswoman, who chairs the subcommittee, emphasized that the social-media giant’s new policy only covers video that has been manipulated with AI or deep learning. She grilled Facebook executive Monika Bickert on the point that a manipulated clip of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that went viral last year “wouldn’t have been taken down under the new policy.”
In another volley aimed at Facebook on Wednesday, Democratic Rep. Debbie Dingell of Michigan released a letter that she has sent to the company’s CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, in which she asks him to detail what Facebook is doing to stop misinformation about the U.S.-Iran conflict.
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