Intelligence Committee Chairman Probes 'Deepfake' Images, Videos

U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff pressed major social media companies on how they plan to handle the threat of deepfake images and videos on their platforms ahead of the 2020 elections. The Democratic congressman wrote letters to the chief executives of Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc and Google, which owns YouTube, asking about the companies’ formal policies on deepfakes and their research into technologies to detect the doctored content.

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