Deepfakes — digitally altered photos and videos that can make someone appear to be, or be doing, just about anything — have proliferated on the internet.
Madyson Fitzgerald is a content producer and staff writer for Stateline. Stateline is part of States Newsroom, the nation’s largest state-focused nonprofit news organization.
After a 2014 leak of hundreds of celebrities’ intimate photos, Uldouz Wallace learned that she was among the public figures whose images had been stolen and disseminated online. Wallace, an
Two Southern California women, who have been victimized by deepfake pornography, issued a warning that your social media photos could be stolen and manipulated to produce explicit and non-consensual content.