What We Learned This Week: Meta's Oversight Board Orders the Removal of Deepfake Videos From Facebook
Meta's Oversight Board recently ordered the company to remove two AI-generated videos from Facebook -- one involving a Scottish politician who was falsely portrayed making inflammatory comments about refugees, and the second involving a young Muslim woman. The board overturned Meta's original decisions in both cases. Meta's rules on AI deepfakes are "consistently and fundamentally inadequate to address the rapid rise of AI-generated content," the Oversight Board said on September 17.
Weekend Update: 10.01.2026
Saturday, October 3: Art of Manga at Brooklyn Museum When an art form born of mass circulation is suddenly stripped from its newsprint and pinned to a gallery wall, something almost personal happens. In Art of Manga at the Brooklyn Museum, a dizzying shift from the pocket-sized, disposable book to the physical, hand-drawn original becomes a study in visual momentum. To look closely at these 600 original drawings—stretching from the foundational, mid-century kineti...

