Meta Oversight Board Warns of 'Incoherent' Rules After Fake Biden Video

Meta Platforms Inc.'s independent Oversight Board agreed with the company's recent decision to leave up a misleading video of US President Joe Biden, but criticized its policies on content generated by artificial intelligence as "incoherent" and too narrow. The board, which was set up in 2020 by management to independently review some of the company's most significant content moderation decisions, on Monday urged Meta to update its policies quickly ahead of the 2024 U.S. general election. "The Board is concerned about the manipulated media policy in its current form, finding it to be incoherent, lacking in persuasive justification and inappropriately focused on how content has been created, rather than on which specific harms it aims to prevent, such as disrupting electoral processes," the organization said in a statement. The criticism from the board came after reviewing Meta's decision to leave up a manipulated video of Biden, which was edited to make it look like he was inappropriately touching his adult granddaughter's chest. The video included a caption that referred to Biden as a "pedophile."