

Several media outlets covered the video, including Business Insider, the AV Club, Fox News, The Mary Sue and more.

That day, Twitter published a Moments page about the video.
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They wrote, "Here’s how to avoid falling for fake videos like this one: 1) Don’t jump to conclusions 2) Consider the source 3) Check where else it is (and isn’t) online 4) Look closely at the speaker’s mouth 5) Slow the video down." The post (shown below) received more than 350 retweets and 750 likes in 24 hours. Moving forward, we need to be more vigilant with what we trust from the internet." followed the post by tweeting tips for identifying these kinds of fakes.

In the piece, Peele says, "This is a dangerous time. The video warns of the technology that can be used to deceive viewers. That day, the video was also posted on YouTube (shown below), where it received more than 100,000 views in less than 24 hours. The post received more than 13,000 retweets and 29,000 likes in 24 hours. On April 17th, 2018, BuzzFeed tweeted a video deepfake of former President Barack Obama played by Get Out director Jordan Peele. On February 16th, 2018, Reddit banned the /r/FakeApp subreddit, a community dedicated to work-safe video created with the Fake App software, leaving a notice that it had been banned for violating their policy against "involuntary pornography." That day, The Daily Dot published an article about the ban, noting that a recent cache of the subreddit's front page was "dominated by technical discussed of the software, mixed in with some non-porn fakes." Obama BuzzFeed PSA Voat and 8chanįollowing the ban, many of the users moved to the /deepfakes/ board on 8chan and the /v/DeepFakes community on Voat. Also on February 7th, several news sites published articles about the ban, including The Verge, Inverse and BoingBoing. Meanwhile, Redditor admin landoflobsters submitted a post to /r/announcements about the site-wide rules update. That day, a thread about the banning reached the front page of /r/KotakuInAction. Communities focused on this content and users who post such content will be banned from the site." These policies were previously combined in a single rule they will now be broken out into two distinct ones.

As of February 7, 2018, we have made two updates to our site-wide policy regarding involuntary pornography and sexual or suggestive content involving minors. "Reddit strives to be a welcoming, open platform for all by trusting our users to maintain an environment that cultivates genuine conversation. In a statement to the Vice tech news site Motherboard, a Reddit spokesperson explained the reasoning behind the new site-wide restriction: Additionally, Reddit also removed the /r/deepfakensfw, /r/youtubefakes, /r/CelebFakes, /r/doppelbangher, /r/facesets and /r/xray subreddits. On February 7th, 2018, the /r/deepfakes subreddit was banned by Reddit staff for violating the site's content policy "against involuntary pornography" (shown below). That day, Motherboard published an article about the purge, which included a statement from a Gfycat spokesperson who revealed the company was "actively removing this content." /r/Deepfakes Ban On January 31st, 2018, the media-hosting site Gfycat began removing all deepfakes-related media. Additionally, on January 26th, derpfakes put Cage’s head on Harrison Ford’s in the film Raiders of the Lost Ark (shown below, right). The post (shown below, left) received more than 2,000 points (98% upvoted) and 90 comments. Several days later, derpfakes pasted Cage’s face onto Amy Adam’s from the film Man of Steel. The video (shown below) received more than 600 upvotes (97% upvoted) and 20 comments. On January 25th, 2018 Redditor derpfakes posted a video in the /r/deepfakes subreddit, a community where in which people use a deep-learning application called FakeApp to replace the faces of people in videos, of Andy Samberg’s replaced with Nicolas Cage’s. On January 30th, the /r/facesets subreddit was launched for users to share sets of face images extracted for the creation of deepfakes.
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On January 8th, 2018, the deepfakeapp Reddit account announced the launch of FakeApp, an application described as "a desktop tool for creating deepfakes." That month, the /r/fakeapp subreddit dedicated to discussions about the software gathered upwards of 2,500 subscribers.
