WASHINGTON (April 8, 2024) – Meta announced major changes to its policies regarding digitally altered content on Friday. Reuters writes, “The social media giant will start applying "Made with AI" labels in May to AI-generated videos, images and audio posted on its platforms, expanding a policy that previously addressed only a narrow slice of doctored videos, Vice President of Content Policy Monika Bickert said in a blog post.”
These changes are in part due to the upcoming US presidential election in November.
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Law
Spencer Overton is the Patricia Roberts Harris Research Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School. Overton is an expert on voting rights, the legality and threats of election deepfakes, AI and voting rights, and multiracial democracy. Overton has recently testified in front of the Subcommittee of Cybersecurity, Information, Technology, and Government Innovation, U.S. House Committee of Oversight and Accountability on the “Advances in Deepfake Technology” and frequently comments on the threats and advances in the field.
AI/Technology Innovation
Neil Johnson, professor of physics, leads a new initiative in Complexity and Data Science which combines cross-disciplinary fundamental research with data science to attack complex real-world problems. He is an expert on how misinformation and hate speech spreads online and effective mitigation strategies. Johnson recently published new research on bad-actor AI online activity in 2024. The study predicts that daily, bad-actor AI activity is going to escalate by mid-2024, increasing the threat that it could affect election results.
Ethan Porter is an Associate Professor of Media and Public Affairs and of Political Science at George Washington University. He holds appointments in the School of Media and Public Affairs and the Political Science Department and is the Cluster Lead of the Misinformation/Disinformation Lab at GW's Institute for Data, Democracy and Politics. His research has appeared or is forthcoming in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Politics, British Journal of Political Science, Political Behavior, Political Communication and other journals.
Politics
Todd Belt is the director of the Political Management Program at the GW Graduate School of Political Management. Belt is an expert on the presidency, campaigns and elections, mass media and politics, public opinion, and political humor. In addition to his expertise, Belt is co-author of four books and helps to run GW’s political poll, which recently shared new findings.
Danny Hayes, professor of political science, is an expert on campaigns and elections who can discuss the current election landscape and provide insights and analysis on current campaign strategies.