Facebook defends its position on not deleting fake videos

The internet giant led by Mark Zuckerberg has decided not to delete deepfake videos and has defended its position.

Deepfake videos are giving a lot to talk about, a few days ago an alleged video of the president of the United States House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, went viral. In the video we can see a Nancy Pelosi unable to speak properly, as if she were drunk.

Mark Zuckerberg, the CEO of Facebook said that they should have been quicker to cut the scope of the video but that Facebook will remain solid with its position of not removing this type of video, since, according to the regulations of the social network, it does not break any rule.

Zuckerberg also says that when the video was posted, Facebook's algorithm took longer than expected to identify it but, as soon as they could, moderators marked it down as fake, thus reducing audience reach. The video also reached more than 3 million views.

Not just Nancy Pelosi

The congresswoman is not the only one who has been the victim of one of these videos, Mark Zuckerberg himself already has his own version of a deepfake. In the manipulated video of the CEO of Facebook we can see him looking directly at the camera while he talks about the great power that being the Co-Founder of Facebook gives him. Creepy.

Politicians such as Vladimir Putin, president of Russia, and Barack Obama, former president of the United States, also join the list.

deepfake videos

A deepfake, by its literal translation into Spanish means "deep fake", this name refers to the fact that they are videos manipulated in such a realistic (deep) way that it is difficult to know if they are real or if they are false.

These videos are made with artificial intelligence, a software collects images or videos of a specific person and begins to learn about their facial expressions and characteristic gestures, in order to be able to replicate them, making the person do or say something that has never done or said.

This new trend (which is surprisingly easy to do) has many people concerned due to the level of realism of these videos and the possibility that they could be used for a greater evil. If we stop to think for a second about what can be done with one of these videos, we realize that it is not something that we should do less.