Meta to Label AI Content After Oversight Board Calls Policy 'Incoherent'
Summary from the AllSides News Team
Meta said it would label AI-generated images on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads on Tuesday, a day after its independent Oversight Board called the company’s manipulated media policy “incoherent” and “confusing to users.”
The Details: Specifically, the board advised Meta to expand its policy on manipulated media, which focuses on fake audio generated by AI and machine learning, to cover any type of content showing people doing things they did not do. It also advised Meta to label manipulated content. The board’s criticism came as it upheld Meta’s decision not to remove a doctored video of President Joe Biden from Facebook, since it did not violate the company's existing guidelines.
For Context: Meta's Oversight Board acts independently of the company and was established to review content decisions and make policy recommendations. Many countries are holding elections in 2024, and the online spread of misinformation could significantly impact public discourse worldwide.
How The Media Covered It: Outlets across the spectrum focused on the Oversight Board's critique of Meta's policy, but their framing sometimes varied. CNN Business (Lean Left bias) echoed the Oversight Board’s characterization of the gaps in Meta’s policy as a "problematic loophole." The Hill (Center bias) focused primarily on the board’s statements, and the Washington Examiner (Lean Right bias) noted the lack of Congressional activity on the spread of deepfakes.
This summary was developed with the help of AllSides' AI technology.
Featured Coverage of this Story
From the Center
Oversight board calls Meta policy on fake videos ‘incoherent’
The board, which is run independently of Meta and funded through a grant by the company, described the policy as “incoherent, lacking in persuasive justification and inappropriately focused on how content has been created, rather than on which specific harms it aims to prevent.”
The recommendation came as part of the board’s review of Meta’s decision to leave up a manipulated video of President Biden on Facebook that was edited to make it appear as though he was inappropriately touching his granddaughter.
The Meta Oversight Board ultimately upheld Meta’s decision on the Facebook...
From the Left
Manipulated Biden video can remain online, Meta’s Oversight Board rules
A video on Facebook manipulated to suggest that President Joe Biden behaves inappropriately toward women can remain on the platform, but only because of a problematic loophole in Meta’s “incoherent” policies, the company’s Oversight Board said Monday.
The loophole threatens elections worldwide and should be closed as soon as possible, the quasi-judicial board added.
The video in question was posted last spring and showed Biden placing an “I Voted” sticker on his adult granddaughter’s chest — but the clip had been edited to make it seem as if he had...
From the Right
Oversight Board orders Meta to label AI-edited videos of politicians
Meta was told to label any media that featured edits of politicians generated by artificial intelligence.
The Oversight Board, an organization created by Meta to oversee what content the company removes from Facebook and Instagram, ruled on Monday that Meta had to leave AI-generated media designed to deceive the public on its platforms but that it had to label them as such.
This ruling focused on a video posted to Facebook in May 2023 in which the user edited the footage to make it look like President Joe Biden was inappropriately touching his granddaughter. The...
AllSides Picks
April 27th, 2024
April 26th, 2024
More News about Technology from the Left, Center and Right
From the Left
From the Center
From the Right
