Meta Oversight Board Says Manipulated Video Of Biden Can Stay On Facebook, Recommends Policy Overhaul

CBS San Francisco

February 5, 2024

A highly edited video of President Biden on Facebook will remain on the platform after an independent body that oversees Meta's content moderation determined that the post does not violate the company's policies, but the panel also criticized the company's manipulated media policy as "incoherent and confusing."

The video, posted in May 2023, was edited to make it appear as if Mr. Biden was repeatedly inappropriately touching his adult granddaughter's chest. In the original video, taken in 2022, the president places an "I voted" sticker on his granddaughter after voting in the midterm elections. But the video under review by Meta's Oversight Board was looped and edited into a seven-second clip that critics said left a misleading impression.

Meta's Oversight Board, an independent group that oversees Meta's content policies and can make binding decisions on whether content is removed or left up, said that the video did not violate Meta's policies because the video was not altered with artificial intelligence and does not show Mr. Biden "saying words he did not say" or "doing something he did not do."

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