Facebook's new deepfake ban comes with a politician-sized loophole

We probably should have seen this coming. 

Yesterday, following months of criticism, Facebook announced a new "manipulated media" policy meant to curb the spread of deepfakes and misinformation on its gargantuan platform. And while the narrowness of the ban has already raised questions about its likely effectiveness, another perhaps more pressing problem has come to the fore: Politicians get a particular exception to the rule. 

That's right, known media bad actors like Donald Trump will be able to continue to post edited and manipulated media as long as said media is not in the form of a paid post and Facebook deems it somehow newsworthy. Similarly manipulated content, under the new policy, would be removed by Facebook were it not posted by a politician.  Read more...