Meta's Oversight Board: Ordinary People Need Stronger Deepfake Protections

Executive Briefing

• Reveals Meta's current deepfake protections disproportionately favor public figures over ordinary users
• Recommends classifying AI-generated sexual impersonations as non-consensual by default under Meta's Adult Sexual Exploitation policy
• Urges Meta to expand specialized deepfake reporting forms globally, currently limited to Texas and Florida residents
• Overturns Meta's decision to keep a sexualized deepfake video live on Instagram after the company repeatedly ignored user reports
• Warns that sexualized deepfake proliferation disproportionately harms women and girls, chilling social and political participation