Meta Deepfake Moderation Insufficient

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• •Meta's Oversight Board identified a critical gap in Meta's Media Matching Service (MMS) banks: the company relies on media coverage to add deepfake images to detection systems, leaving non-public figures vulnerable to repeated harassment since their images are never flagged for automatic removal[1][5].
• •The Oversight Board expressed concern about Meta's 'auto-closing' of appeals for image-based sexual abuse after 48 hours, citing potential significant human rights impacts for victims seeking to challenge removal decisions[2].
• •A 550% increase in online deepfake videos has occurred since 2019, with the vast majority being sexualized depictions, yet Meta's policy language using the term 'derogatory sexualized photoshop' remains insufficiently clear to users about what constitutes a violation[3].
• •Meta's counter-misinformation spending is heavily skewed toward English-language content moderation (87% of Facebook's budget), despite English speakers representing only 9% of global Facebook users, creating systematic gaps in deepfake detection for non-Western regions[4].

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