Mark Zuckerberg says Facebook is 'evaluating' deepfake policy

Facebook may soon have new rules for "deepfakes." 

That's according to Mark Zuckerberg, who said Wednesday that the company is currently discussing specific policies that would police deepfakes, a term that refers to videos that have been realistically manipulated using artificial intelligence.

The issue was recently thrust into the spotlight after a manipulated video of Nancy Pelosi went viral on the platform. The video, which experts said had been slowed down, made the Speaker of the House's speech sound slurred as if she were drunk. Facebook's fact checkers eventually marked the video as false, but it had already spread widely before Facebook down-ranked it in users' News Feeds. Read more...