Coming Soon: Searching for Mr. Deepfakes
About this episode
This episode introduces a four-part investigation into the man behind the largest deepfake porn site and the implications of digital abuse.
Coming this month, Mostly Human presents Searching for Mr. Deepfakes — a four-part investigation into the man behind the largest deepfake porn site on the internet and the real-world harm this new form of digital abuse causes. In 2022, Laurie Segall came across one of the most dystopian sites she’d ever seen. It was called Mr. Deepfakes and it was filled with videos of celebrities, politicians, and famous women of all sorts in these sexually graphic, often violent videos doing things they would never do. What’s worse, it wasn’t just a destination for passive viewing, it was a community, a place where users could teach, learn, and build technology explicitly designed to violate women — whether famous or not. Mr. Deepfakes wasn’t the only deepfake porn site out there, but it was by far the biggest and most influential, exposing thousands of women in the most vulnerable way. And yet the person behind Mr. Deepfakes had remained anonymous. His anonymity made him powerful and dangerous. It protected him from what little recourse the victims on his site had to get their videos taken down, to protect themselves. This isn’t just about one…
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