Facebook’s new policy fails to address less-sophisticated misleading videos, like the doctored Nancy Pelosi clip that went viral last year
, which was doctored to make it seem as though the House speaker was slurring her words, would still be allowed on the platform. Allies of President, circulated the video online last year; though it was deemed fake, Facebook—where it was most viewed—refused to remove it, explaining that it does “not have a policy that stipulates that the information you post on Facebook must be true.” “We aren’t in the news business,” Bickert said at the time, in May. “We’re in the social-media business.
”responsibility for the content on its platform, particularly ahead of November’s election, which is already being targeted by disinformation campaigns similar to the one that rocked 2016. But its focus on deepfakes highlights the extent to which videos like the Pelosi clip, or the more recentwere taken out of context to make them seem racist, will be allowed to remain.
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