By James Pero For Dailymail.com
Published: 20:23 BST, 25 June 2019 | Updated: 21:27 BST, 25 June 2019
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The CEO of Instagram has defended the company's decision not to take down a deepfaked video of Mark Zuckerberg two weeks after the doctored video was reported.
Adam Mosseri told CBS' Gayle King - in his first US television interview since taking over the platform last year - that the company hasn't yet formulated an official policy on AI-altered video called 'deepfakes', and until then taking action would be 'inappropriate.'
Mosseri said, 'I don't feel good about it,' but said there is no rush to remove the video, in part because 'the damage is done.'
Mosseri's comments about deepfakes come as a response to King's questioning about a faked video of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg taken from an actual interview with CBSN in 2017.
The doctored video features a fairly convincing Zuckerberg next to a superimposed CBSN logo talking about how Facebook wields power over its users.
CBS first reported the video to Instagram on June 12. As of June 25, the video was still up, and Mosseri suggested it would not be taken down soon.
In the faked video, Zuckerberg appears to say: 'Imagine this for a second: One man with total control of billions of peoples stolen data, all their secrets, their lives, their futures.
'I owe it all to Spectre. Spectre showed me that whoever controls the data, controls the future.'
CBS has repeatedly asked the company to remove the
