Meta removes fake video of Haddad after notification from AGU

The company Meta (M1TA34), which controls the social networks Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, removed from the platforms a video tampered with using artificial intelligence (AI) in which the Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, appears making non-existent statements.

In an extrajudicial notification to the company, sent this Thursday (9), the Attorney General’s Office (AGU) argued that the manipulated post contains fraudulent information and attributes to the minister non-existent statements “about the creation of a tax on pets and prenatal”.

The agency gave the company 24 hours to remove the video from a link provided in the request. On Friday afternoon (10), the AGU itself confirmed the removal.

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“The company Meta officially expressed its opinion via email stating that it had removed the post indicated in the extrajudicial notification sent by AGU,” said the institution.

The link indicated is, in fact, no longer accessible, in a consultation carried out by the Brazil Agency.

In another video posted on social media, this one real, Minister Fernando Haddad himself denies the false information about the taxation of pets and the creation of a tax on Pix, to combat fraudulent posts on the networks.