Security News > 2020 > February > Twitter bans deepfakes, but only those ‘likely to cause harm’
On Tuesday, Twitter rolled out its plans to handle deepfakes and other forms of disinformation.
In a call with reporters on Tuesday, Twitter's head of site integrity, Yoel Roth, said that Twitter's focus under the new policy is "To look at the outcome, not how it was achieved." That's in stark contrast to Facebook, which sparked outrage when it announced its own deepfakes policy a month ago.
Given the latitude Facebook's new deepfakes policy gives to satire, parody, or videos altered with simple/cheapo technologies, some pretty infamous, and widely shared, cheapfakes will be given a pass and left on the platform.
Under its new policy, Twitter will similarly apply a "False" warning label to any photos or videos that have been "Significantly and deceptively altered or fabricated," although it won't differentiate between the technologies used to manipulate a piece of media.
In the call with reporters on Tuesday, Roth said that Twitter would generally apply a warning label to the Pelosi video under the new approach, but added that the content could be removed if the text in the tweet or other contextual signals suggested it was likely to cause harm.