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Meta ordered to remove deepfakes as oversight board criticises ‘inadequate’ safeguards
Publisher description: Facebook told it was wrong in leaving up AI-generated videos of a Labour councillor and Muslim campaigner, amid calls to curb fakes
The Guardian | Sep 17, 2026 | Dan Milmo Global technology editor
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Meta’s “supreme court” has ordered the tech company to take down deepfake videos of a UK politician and a young Muslim woman from Facebook and do more to tackle AI-generated fake imagery. A fake video showing a Labour party councillor in Scotland making inflammatory comments about refugees should not have been left up by Facebook, the board said. The video should also have received a “high risk AI” label, said the board, as it called for tougher measures on deepfakes.
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