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Facebook has launched Watch, its new video on demand platform, in countries around the world after a one-year trial in the US. Monetised primarily through pre- roll advertising, Facebook Watch content includes short-form and news content made in association with major media companies. BBC News has just launched a new show Cut Through and interactive elements around online games and audience participation. Watch Parties can be built around different types of content and interests, using video to generate conversation or social connections. FACEBOOK WATCH GOES GLOBAL US CONCERNED ABOUT “DEEP FAKES” US lawmakers have registered concern about the security implications of “deep fakes”, completely artificial but convincing video and audio representations of real people. Daniel R. Coats, US Director of and the public about the implications of new technologies that allow malicious actors to fabricate audio, video and still images.” foreign intelligence services or foreign individuals could use deep fake technology to harm United States the Noise on the platform. Watch has also developed a raft of scripted series including teen drama SKAM Austin and, most recently, Sorry For Your Loss , a half-hour episodic drama. Facebook is looking at shaping the Watch viewing experience to play to its social strengths with Watch Parties, which allow people to watch and comment on shows together in real time,
national security interests”, a description of any current use of the technology by foreign interests, and recommendations on how to counter the malicious use of deep fake technologies. You can read FEED’s feature article on deep fakes in our August magazine.
The letters goes on to say: “By blurring the line between fact and fictions, deep fake technology could undermine public trust in recorded images and videos as objective depictions of reality.” The representatives have requested an assessment of “how foreign governments,
National Intelligence, received a letter from members of Congress Adam Schiff, Stephanie Murphy and Carlos Carbelo requesting that the US intelligence community deliver “report to Congress
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