The White House said it was alarmed by fake online images of the pop singer Taylor Swift and said social media companies have an essential role in enforcing rules to prevent the spread of such misinformation.
This week, fake images of Swift proliferated across social media, including one photo shared on X, formerly Twitter, that the New York Times said was viewed 47 million times before the account was suspended.
"This is very alarming. And so, we're going to do what we can to deal with this issue," White House Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre said at a news briefing, adding that Congress should take legislative action on the issue.
Lax enforcement against false images, possibly created by artificial intelligence (AI), too often disproportionately affects women, Jean-Pierre said.
"So while social media companies make their own independent decisions about content management, we believe they have an important role to play in enforcing their own rules to prevent the spread of misinformation and non-consensual imagery of real people," Jean-Pierre said.
Walt Disney's movie studio has postponed the release of the next two installments in Marvel's blockbuster "Avengers" series, the company said on Thursday.
Formula One drivers declared Brad Pitt's new F1 movie a winner that would bring fresh fans to the sport after being given an exclusive pre-release screening at the Monaco Grand Prix.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is at the Cannes Film Festival for the documentary "The Six Billion Dollar Man," is assessing how to become politically active again once he has recovered from prison, said his wife, Stella.
Award-winning actor Scarlett Johansson's directorial debut at the Cannes Film Festival is a story she hopes will challenge audiences to reconsider their perspectives on forgiveness and empathy, she told Reuters.
Jodie Foster prefers to be outside the United States right now, the Oscar-winning actor told Reuters at the Cannes Film Festival, citing better conditions in Europe's film industry as well as more freedom now that her children have grown up.
His Highness Sheikh Hamdan bin Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Dubai's Crown Prince and the UAE's Deputy Prime Minster and Defence Minister, has emphasised that empowering young Emiratis with future-ready skills is key to building a sustainable, knowledge-driven economy.