A deepfake video purporting to show Ukraine’s president issuing a statement he didn't make has been removed from Facebook and Instagram, Meta's head of security policy said Wednesday
A deepfake video purporting to show Ukraine’s president issuing a statement he didn't make has been removed from Meta Platforms Inc.'s Facebook and Instagram.
Nathaniel Gleicher, head of security policy at Meta, disclosed Wednesday afternoon the action the company took in a thread on Twitter, saying such content violates its policies that prohibit misleading, manipulated media. A company spokesman said the video showed Mr. Zelensky advising his people to surrender to Russia.
The video “appeared on a reportedly compromised website and then started showing across the internet,” Mr. Gleicher tweeted. In one sign the video was a fake, Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky didn't post it to his verified Twitter account, nor did his country’s minister of digital transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, who has been actively using Twitter to solicit support for Ukraine as it defends itself against Russia.
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