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Chinese activist in UK told by X that abusive deepfakes do not breach rules

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Apple Peiqing Ni targeted by account portraying her as promiscuous drug addict after posting about Tiananmen SquareA high-profile Chinese activist in the UK who was inundated with deepfake posts on X portraying her as a sexually promiscuous drug addict was told that the abuse did not breach the rules of Elon Musk’s platform.Apple Peiqing Ni, […]

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The War on Deepfakes: How Google’s C2PA Integration at I/O 2026 is Fighting Back to Protect Our Reality

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At this year’s Google I/O, the atmosphere at the Shoreline Amphitheatre was electric as the CEO laid out a vision for a world deeply intertwined with agentic AI. We heard about the sheer computing muscle of the new TPU 8i […] The post The War on Deepfakes: How Google’s C2PA Integration at I/O 2026 is

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Tech firms face tougher UK rules on intimate image abuse

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Ofcom to update codes of practice amid rise in ‘revenge porn’ and AI-generated deepfakes targeting women and girlsSocial media, messaging platforms and online forums that publish intimate image abuse – often intended to humiliate women and girls – are being instructed to follow new guidelines to stop it spreading.Ofcom said it will change its codes

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French prosecutors summon Elon Musk over alleged child abuse images on X

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Owner of X summoned along with former CEO Linda Yaccarino over investigation by cybercrime unitBusiness live – latest updatesEurope live – latest updatesElon Musk has been summoned to Paris, where investigators are looking into allegations of misconduct related to the social media platform X, including the spread of child sexual abuse material and deepfake content.The

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Why every woman can see herself in the story of a German celebrity couple’s split | Fatma Aydemir

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Many will recognise their own experiences of digital abuse in Collien Fernandes’s allegations – the sense that technology offers perps both tools and coverSome stories that unfold in real life would read like the plot of a bad crime novel if you wrote them down. Too obvious, too contrived, almost lazy in their cruelty. For

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TV star’s AI porn allegations spark national debate in Germany

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Collien Fernandes accuses ex-husband, Christian Ulmen, of sharing sexually explicit deepfake images of her online A high-profile German TV star’s allegations that her ex-husband spread AI-generated pornographic images of her have triggered a national debate and put pressure on the government to tighten laws around digital violence against women.In an interview with the news magazine

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Tech firms must remove ‘revenge porn’ in 48 hours or risk being blocked, says Starmer

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PM says measure, also applied to deepfake nudes, is needed owing to a ‘national emergency’ of online misogynyDeepfake nudes and “revenge porn” must be removed from the internet within 48 hours or technology firms risk being blocked in the UK, Keir Starmer has said, calling it a “national emergency” that the government must confront.Companies could

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Victims urge tougher action on deepfake abuse as new law comes into force

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Campaigners welcome criminalisation of non-consensual AI-generated explicit images but say law does not go far enoughVictims of deepfake image abuse have called for stronger protection against AI-generated explicit images, as the law criminalising the creation of non-consensual intimate images comes into effect.Campaigners from Stop Image-Based Abuse delivered a petition to Downing Street with more than

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Deepfake fraud taking place on an industrial scale, study finds

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AI content for scams can be targeted at individuals and ‘produced by pretty much anybody’, researchers sayDeepfake fraud has gone “industrial”, an analysis published by AI experts has said.Tools to create tailored, even personalised, scams – leveraging, for example, deepfake videos of Swedish journalists or the president of Cyprus – are no longer niche, but

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Abusers using AI and digital tech to attack and control women, charity warns

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Exclusive: Smartwatches, Oura rings, smart home devices and Fitbits being weaponised, says RefugeDomestic abusers are increasingly using AI, smartwatches and other technology to attack and control their victims, a domestic abuse charity says.Record numbers of women who were abused and controlled through technology were referred to Refuge’s specialist services during the last three months of

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