Deepfake video of Mark Zuckerberg shared on Instagram tests Facebook's fake footage policies

Facebook will not remove a deepfake video of CEO Mark Zuckerberg falsely portraying him claiming to control the future thanks to stolen data - similar to the platform's refusal to take down a doctored video of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi in May. The video created by Bill Posters and Daniel Howe in partnership with advertising company Canny is hashtagged '#deepfake,' a term that refers to video or audio with virtually undetectable edits made to portray something very different than the original media source. In the edited video which also includes a CBSN logo, Zuckerberg is made to appear to say, 'Imagine this for a second: One man, with total control of billions of people's stolen data, all their secrets, their lives, their futures. I owe it all to Spectre. Spectre showed me that whoever controls the data, controls the future.'