Security News > 2020 > January > Facebook bans deepfakes, but not cheapfakes or shallowfakes
Facebook will be using its own staff, as well as independent fact-checkers, to judge a video's authenticity.
Given the latitude the new policy gives to satire, parody, or videos altered with simple/cheapo technologies, it might mean that some pretty infamous, and widely shared, cheapfakes will be given a pass and left on the platform.
Facebook confirmed to Reuters that the shallowfake Pelosi video isn't going anywhere.
In spite of the thrashing critics gave Facebook for refusing to delete the video - which went viral after being posted in May 2019 - Facebook said in a statement that it didn't meet the standards of the new policy, since it wasn't created with AI:. The doctored video of Speaker Pelosi does not meet the standards of this policy and would not be removed.
Nor does Facebook seem to be ready to censure cheapfakes that are the result of mislabeled footage, spliced dialogue or quotes taken out of context.