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'Virtual rape': AI is silencing women in public life, UN report

More than 41% of women said they had self-censored on social media to avoid abuse, while 19% had pulled back from speaking out in a professional context.

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Deepfakes of frontline Ukrainian soldiers aim to undermine morale

Moscow is using AI-generated videos of Ukrainian soldiers to portray the country as weak and undermine trust in its central command.

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Did you spot these fake videos about the Iran war?

The escalation between Iran, Israel and the US has prompted a wave of viral war footage online. But many of the videos gaining millions of views are misleading, wrongly captioned, lifted from video games or entirely AI-generated.

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How deepfake scams are reaching record levels on social media

As deepfakes become increasingly sophisticated, the sheer amount of money being lost to online scams piled up in 2025.

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UK data regulator opens probe into X over sexual AI deepfakes

Grok came under fire for generating sexually explicit deepfakes of women and minors early last month.

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Paris Hilton joins the fight against sexually-explicit AI deepfakes

Socialite and hotel heiress Paris Hilton joined US congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to advocate for legal protections for victims of AI deepfake porn.

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Grok limits image generation after backlash over sexualised deepfakes

The chatbot has been under fire over the past two weeks for generating sexually-explicit deepfakes of women and minors.

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Elon Musk’s Grok under fire for making sexually explicit AI deepfakes

Elon Musk’s xAI is facing backlash as its chatbot Grok, a key feature on social media platform X, repeatedly generated sexually explicit images of women and minors.

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How Finland is teaching schoolchildren AI literacy

As deepfakes proliferate online, Finland adds AI literacy to its school curriculum to help children as young as 3 to recognise AI-generated fake news.

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South Korea says advertisers must label AI-generated ads

South Korean officials said they will ramp up screening and removal of problematic AI-generated ads and impose punitive fines.

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Watchdog group calls on OpenAI to scrap AI video app Sora

The group is raising alarm about the dangers of letting people create AI videos on just about anything they can type into a prompt.

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How Denmark is trying to protect citizens from AI deepfakes

Denmark is seeking to protect ordinary Danes, as well as performers and artists who might have their appearance or voice imitated and shared without their permission.

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Did teenagers wreak havoc in France's National Assembly?

A group of teenagers wearing tracksuits can be seen running around France's National Assembly, walking all over its benches and lighting cigarettes. The internet may be talking about them, but these videos are not real.

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‘TikTok slop’: Robin Williams' daughter on AI deepfakes of her father

"AI is just badly recycling and regurgitating the past to be re-consumed." Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda has criticised AI-generated videos of her father, amid the rise in deepfakes courtesy of OpenAI's new video tool Sora 2.

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Is Meta failing to stop the spread of non-consensual images?

Altered photos of women, including Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, accompanied by sexist comments, have stirred outrage in the country. But it is not the first case to affect social platforms.

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Which European countries have laws against deepfakes?

People in Denmark will soon have the copyright to their own likenesses as a way to fight against deepfakes. What other countries have laws that govern the use of fake or AI-generated videos?