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Meta ordered to remove UK deepfakes as oversight board criticises ‘inadequate’ safeguards
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PUBLISHEDSep 17, 2026, 2:43 PM
What the source reports
Facebook told it was wrong in leaving up AI-generated videos of a Labour councillor and Muslim campaigner, amid calls to curb fakes Meta’s “supreme court” has ordered the tech company to take down deepfake videos of a UK politician and a young Muslim woman from Facebook and do more to tackle AI-generated fake imagery .
A fake video showing a Labour party councillor in Scotland making inflammatory comments about refugees should not have been left up by Facebook, the board said. It also ruled…
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