‘Would love to see her faked’: the dark world of sexual deepfakes - and the women fighting back

The government has promised a crackdown on synthetic image abuse - but campaigners warn it doesn’t go far enough

It began with an anonymous email. “I’m genuinely so, so sorry to reach out to you,” it read. Beneath the words were three links to an internet forum. “Huge trigger warning … They contain lewd photoshopped images of you.”

Jodie (not her real name) froze. In the past, the 27-year-old from Cambridgeshire had had problems with people stealing her photos to set up dating profiles and social media accounts. She had reported it to police but been told there was nothing they could do, so pushed it to the back of her mind.

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