'The real problem lies in more traditional disinformation advertising.'
, usually with artificial intelligence or deep-learning technology to depict a person doing something they never did or saying something they never said.
In addition, content will be removed if it is"the product of artificial intelligence or machine learning that merges, replaces or superimposes content onto a video, making it appear to be authentic." In May, a video that appeared to be digitally altered to impair the speech of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi went viral, ringing the alarm bells for the possible rise of this new digital threat as the 2020 elections approached.by saying its third-party fact-checking partners had deemed the video"false," and it was"heavily reducing its distribution" in Facebook’s newsfeed.
"As we head into the 2020 elections, this is a good step forward," Dipayan Ghosh, a former privacy and public policy advisor at Facebook and former technology and economic policy advisor in the Obama White House, told ABC News Tuesday.
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