Meta’s Oversight Board filed two new decisions criticizing the company’s “inadequate” protections against harmful deepfakes, following reports of Meta’s failure to remove AI-augmented ads containing child sexual abuse content. The decisions stem from two videos with AI-manipulated imagery. In the first, posted by a Facebook user in 2025, a Labour Party councillor in Scotland says, “refugees are welcome here, even if they rape our women, because white people do that too.” Meta’s systems did not prioritize the post for human review even after two individuals reported it for violating the Bullying and Harassment policy; Meta said the video did not violate its Community Standards and did not merit an AI label. The Board says Meta needs to do much more, including increasing penalties for sharing harmful deepfakes. It is especially concerned about “High Risk AI” videos’ societal impact and demands companies address the increasing realism of deepfakes depicting elected officials misrepresenting their views and misinformation fueling hatred against minorities, including immigrants. The Board also finds women politicians, journalists and activities are “disproportionately targeted.” It finds Meta’s bullying and harassment policies regarding AI-manipulated imagery of people not normally in the public eye “inadequate,” citing a young Muslim woman whose AI-manipulated likeness appeared in harassing posts garnering tens of millions of views; Meta ignored her appeal and closed reports without prioritizing review, which the Board says violated its