Facebook removes 'deepfake' video of Ukrainian president that called on country's forces to …

Facebook has removed a deepfake video on its platform that claimed to show Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky urging his country’s troops to surrender to the invading Russian forces.Nathaniel Gleicher, head of security policy at Meta, Facebook’s parent company, tweeted on Wednesday that the video was removed for violating the company’s policy against misleading manipulated media.“Earlier today, our teams identified and removed a deepfake video claiming to show President Zelensky issuing a statement he never did. It appeared on a reportedly compromised website and then started showing across the internet,” Mr Gleicher noted.“We’ve quickly reviewed and removed this video for violating our policy against misleading manipulated media, and notified our peers at other platforms,” he added.The deepfake video appeared on the website for Segodnya, a Russian-language Ukrainian tabloid newspaper, with the text claiming that Mr Zelensky had ordered his troops to stand down.Segodnya responded in a statement on Instagram that “enemy hackers” were responsible for the hacking.The altered video was aired in a hacked news broadcast on the television channel Ukraine 24, the statement noted.“Friends, we have repeatedly warned about this. Nobody is going to give up. Especially in conditions when the Russian army is defeated in battles with the Ukrainian…
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