The company Meta, 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 extrajudicial notification sent to the company 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 care “.
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.
“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 consultation with the report.
In another video posted on social media, this one real, the minister Fernando Haddad himself denies false information about pet taxation and the creation of a tax on Pixto counter fraudulent posts on the networks.
