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 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 asked the company 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 itself via email stating that it had removed the post indicated in the extrajudicial notification sent by the AGU,” said the institution.
The link indicated is, in fact, no longer accessible, in a consultation carried out by the Brazil Agency.
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In another video posted on social media, this one real, Minister Fernando Haddad himself talks about the taxation of pets and the creation of a tax on Pix, to combat fraudulent posts on the networks.
