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February 5, 2020 01:30 am

Twitter Will Ban Deepfakes and Other Manipulated Media That Could Cause 'Serious Harm'

On Tuesday, Twitter announced changes to its synthetic and manipulated media policy, which it defines as any photo, audio, or video that's been "significantly altered or fabricated" to mislead people or change the original meaning of the content. Under the new rules, Twitter will remove this kind of media if the company finds it likely to cause serious harm -- such as content that threatens people's physical safety or could cause "widespread civil unrest." If Twitter doesn't think manipulated media posts are likely to cause harm, it may still label the tweets as containing manipulated media, warn users who try to share them, and deprioritize the content in users' feeds. The changes will go into effect on March 5. Recode reports: Twitter is the latest social media company, along with Facebook, YouTube, and Reddit, to restrict increasingly controversial "deepfakes" and other kinds of manipulated media in recent months on their platforms. [...] One of the most famous examples so far is from May, when a doctored video of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went viral on social media platforms, including Twitter, that slowed down her speech to make her seem inebriated. Similarly, a clip of former Vice President Joe Biden went viral online that was misleadingly edited to make it falsely appear he was making racist remarks. Under the new rules, Twitter says in the future, it would at minimum label the videos like the ones of Pelosi and Biden as manipulated, since their speech was deceptively altered. Beyond the Pelosi example, political deepfakes have become a concern for US lawmakers and other government officials, who warn that they could be used by malicious actors to undermine US democracy and influence elections. Twitter and other companies' increasingly tougher rules on the topic are in part a response to these fears, particularly ahead of the 2020 presidential elections.

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