Revenge porn

April 29th 2025

Activists Warn Newly Passed Bill to Combat Deepfakes Will Cause Online Chaos

While the legislation is well intended, it offers a broad opportunity for abuse.

Tech Policy Vanessa Taylor

April 16th 2024

Creating Deepfake Porn Could Soon Get You Thrown in Jail in the UK

The United Kingdom is stepping up its punitive action against those who want to create or share computer-generated porn images.

Tech News Lucas Ropek

January 29th 2024

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Taylor Swift AI Porn Forces Changes at Twitter and Microsoft

Elon Musk's social media platform is blocking searches related to "Taylor Swift" after AI porn created to resemble the artist went viral.

Tech News Maxwell Zeff

January 19th 2024

Pornhub Has a New Kink: Consent

The porn website now requires proof of consent from every performer on the platform.

Tech News Maxwell Zeff

October 22nd 2023

Victims of Deepfakes Are Fighting Back

A new documentary lays bare the personal trauma pornographic deepfakes cause and the steps victims are taking to reclaim their lives.

Artificial Intelligence Mack DeGeurin

March 29th 2023

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Reddit Is Leaning Harder on Its Banhammer

Reddit said it’s excising far more subreddits and users after it changed its policies last year.

Tech News Kyle Barr

February 27th 2023

Facebook and Instagram Are Launching a Tool to Help Other Sites Remove Child Abuse Images

Users can submit a hashed image of known child abuse material to a database for Facebook, Instagram, Pornhub, Onlyfans, and others to scan against.

Tech News Mack DeGeurin

December 1st 2022

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TikTok and Bumble Are Cracking Down on Nonconsensual Nude Uploads

The social media platform and dating app have joined the fight against the nonconsensual sharing of intimate photos.

Tech News Kevin Hurler

December 16th 2021

Victims of GirlsDoPorn’s Sex Trafficking Operation Now Own Their Videos

A federal judge's ruling makes it harder for platforms to ignore their removal requests.

Tech News Whitney Kimball

November 30th 2021

Twitter Bans Sharing Photos of Private Individuals Without Their Consent

The company's new rules crack down on users who share pictures or videos without the subject's permission.

Social Media Shoshana Wodinsky

July 8th 2021

Mindgeek Site XTube to Shut Down Months After Purge of Unverified User Uploads

'Good fucking riddance,' one creator tweeted. Smaller Mindgeek sites could be next.

Tech News Whitney Kimball

June 11th 2021

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These Google Links Can Keep Search Results From Ruining Your Life

Bookmark these links in case you're ever the victim of online slander.

Tech News Florence Ion

April 29th 2021

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Australian Political Staffer Fired for Filming Himself Jerking Off on Female Politician’s Desk Says Video of the Incident Is ‘Revenge Porn’

How do you define revenge porn? It might seem easy enough when it’s an angry man posting a naked photo of his ex-girlfriend to 4Chan. But what happens when it’s an image of a lewd act in the workplace that touches off a national conversation about gender bias, power imbalances, and sexual assault? Australia was…

Tech News Matt Novak

April 6th 2021

Matt Gaetz Reportedly Fought a Revenge Porn Law to Protect His Stash

An update on the metastasizing horrors from the ongoing saga of U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz, a Florida Republican reportedly under investigation for sex trafficking: It’s not looking great. On Monday, the Orlando Sentinel reported that Gaetz fiercely opposed a revenge porn law while in the Florida legislature. Why? Gaetz allegedly personally wished to do whatever…

Tech News Whitney Kimball

November 1st 2019

Revenge Porn Law Is Stupidly Complicated

Now-former Congresswoman Katie Hill bid a tragic goodbye Thursday on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives, leaving her apartment for the first time in the wake of a gruesome public shaming that she has vowed to combat. The tabloid publication of revenge porn, which caused her to resign on Sunday, calls into question…

Tech Policy Whitney Kimball

August 27th 2019

Woman’s Ex-Husband and His New Girlfriend Ordered to Pay $3.2 Million in Revenge Porn Case

In August, Elizabeth Ann Clark sued her ex-husband Adam Matthew Clark and his new girlfriend for stalking, cyberstalking, revenge porn, and libelous comments, which included allegedly posting fake personal ads of her on Craigslist and Facebook. This included posting a partly nude photo of her online. On Monday, a jury ruled in favor of the…

Privacy & Security Melanie Ehrenkranz

July 1st 2019

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Virginia’s Anti-Revenge Porn Law Now Covers Deepfakes and Other ‘Falsely Created’ Content

A update to Virginia’s law against revenge porn banning the distribution of explicit videos and images that have been deepfaked—i.e., modified using machine learning algorithms to picture someone else—or otherwise created with the intent to “coerce, harass, or intimidate” a victim went into effect on Monday, per CNET. Revenge porn is a common neologism for…

Tech News Tom McKay

May 31st 2019

Facebook Screws Up a Critical Piece of Its Anti-Revenge Porn Tech

At the end of 2017, Facebook announced a pilot program that lets users send the company their intimate photos and videos that they don’t want to be shared on its main platform as well as Instagram. Facebook said in March that it is using machine learning and artificial intelligence to detect that content, and in…

Social Media Melanie Ehrenkranz

April 3rd 2019

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Teacher Says She Was Fired for Not Being a ‘Role Model’ After Topless Selfie Leaks

A 25-year-old middle school teacher in Long Island was fired after a topless selfie she took was nonconsensually obtained by a student at her school. The teacher, Lauren Miranda, is now in the process of suing the school district for gender discrimination. Miranda took the photo herself and says that she only shared it with…

Privacy & Security Melanie Ehrenkranz

March 15th 2019

Facebook Says It Will Use AI to Police Revenge Porn, but It Won’t Fully Explain How (Updated)

In the absence of proactive tools to prevent dirtbags from nonconsensually uploading intimate photos to the internet, victims of revenge porn have little surefire recourse to ensure the photos stop circulating online. It’s an exhausting and devastating game of whack-a-mole, and even when images are effectively scrubbed, the damage has been done. That’s why Facebook’s…

Social Media Melanie Ehrenkranz

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