Meta Oversight Board Is Reviewing Policies Around Deepfake Nudes

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Oversight Board is investigating the company’s handling of AI-generated deepfakes of an “American public figure,” following a surge of such images depicting singer Taylor Swift earlier this year.

The board will evaluate whether two separate AI-created images depicting “nude” women posted on Facebook should have been removed under Meta’s content policies, according to a statement Tuesday. The organization, which is funded by Meta but designed to be independent, reviews content decisions made on Facebook and Instagram.

Sexually explicit deepfake images of Swift began flooding Facebook, Instagram, X and other social media platforms in January, prompting outcry ...