Faking It: Deepfake Porn Site’s Link to Tech Companies

Faking It: Deepfake Porn Site’s Link to Tech Companies

This article is the result of a collaboration with German YouTube channel STRG_F. You can watch their documentary here. Warning: This article discusses non-consensual sexually explicit content from the start. Illustration by Piper Maclean (University of Brighton) for Bellingcat The graphic images claim to show Patrizia Schlosser, an investigative reporter from Germany. She’s depicted naked and in chains. “At first I was shocked and ashamed – ev…

Again and again, falsified videos using AI are circulating on social networks, which are supposed to show news reports from the Tagesschau. Shortly before the federal election, fakes are circulating that want to exert political influence. By C. Reveland.

Provocative videos have recently appeared on the Internet — deepfakes aimed at Ukrainian refugees and those who help them. An investigation by the Russian and Ukrainian Voice of America services revealed that artificial intelligence is probably used to create them, and the videos themselves may be part of a Russian online information operation called Matryoshka. The videos were shared both on the new social network Bluesky and on platform X (for…