After Facebook, Twitter moves to ban deepfakes on its platform

After Facebook, micro-blogging website Twitter has taken on deepfakes and other manipulated media content on social networking platforms. Twitter, in a blog post highlighting its new policies for such content, said it will remove or label synthetic media including both sophisticated deepfake videos and other media that is edited.

Twitter may label manipulated content to alert users and “provide additional explanations or clarifications, as available, such as a landing page with more context,” for such tweets. It will also warn users before they retweet or tweet such content on the platform. Twitter will also try to reduce the visibility of such posts on its platform.

Like Facebook, Twitter will also take context of such content to impose its policies on them.