Meta’s Oversight Board is investigating a Facebook post containing an apparently AI-generated deepfake video of a British Labour Party councillor in Scotland. The video misrepresents the councillor’s views on immigration and includes sarcastic and offensive remarks about refugees and sexual assault. The post also includes a suspected AI-generated video of pro-Palestine protesters and a likely genuine still image of women holding anti-far-right signs, with names and a caption making baseless tax-evasion accusations. The content received limited engagement and included no AI labels or disclosures. Users reported potential violations under Meta’s Bullying and Harassment policy, but Meta’s systems did not escalate for human review, and the content remained online. The councillor has previously reported threats, intimidation, and AI-generated defamation tied to anti-migrant sentiment and asylum-seeker protests.
"Meta's Oversight Board is investigating an apparently AI-generated video of a British politician that misrepresents their views on issues such as immigration. The board said the video in question was part of an album posted on Facebook in November last year, and features a seemingly deepfaked Labour Party councillor who represents an area in Scotland making sarcastic and offensive comments about refugees and sexual assault."
"As well as the deepfake video, the post also includes a video of pro-Palestine protesters that the Oversight Board also suspects to be AI-generated, plus a likely genuine still image of several women, including the politician from the first video, holding anti-far-right signs. The women are also named in the post, and the written caption is said to make baseless accusations of tax evasion against the Labour politician."
"The board says engagement with the post was relatively minimal, but it contained no AI labels or disclosures. It added that two users had alleged that the content violates Meta's Bullying and Harassment policy, but when the company's systems failed to escalate their complaints for human review and the content remained on Facebook, one of them appealed to the board."
"The Oversight Board claims Meta said the post was not flagged for removal or perceived to be in violation of its rules because the politician is a public figure of adult age, and therefore not automatically protected from "unwanted manipulated imagery." Private individuals can self-report harmful content and request to have it taken down."
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