Facebook will not remove a deepfake video of Mark Zuckerberg that was uploaded to Instagram earlier this week, The Verge reports. In doing so, Facebook will follow the same policy it applied to a doctored video of US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that went viral in May. According to the Verge, the company would treat the Zuckerberg video the same way it treats all misinformation on Instagram: “If third-party fact-checkers mark it as false, we will filter it from Instagram’s recommendation surfaces like Explore and hashtag pages.” The Zuckerberg deepfake is the work of artists Bill Posters and Daniel Howe in partnership with advertising firm Canny, as per Motherboard. It shows Zuckerberg sitting at a desk, seemingly giving a sinister speech about Facebook's power: “Imagine this for a second: One man, with total control of billions of people’s stolen data, all their secrets, their lives, their futures,” it continues, ”I owe it all to Spectre. Spectre showed me that whoever controls the data, controls the future.” The original clip is from a 2017 video of Zuckerberg describing Russian interference on Facebook. https://www.instagram.com/p/ByaVigGFP2U/?utm_source=ig_embed Criticism over Pelosi video In May, Facebook was criticised for not removing a doctored clip of Pelosi - which was edited to make her appear drunk - after it went viral on the platform, the Motherboard report said. The video was one of many that were circulated across social networks in an apparent attempt to discredit and embarrass her. It is not known who made them. One of the clips, shared by President…
