Almost 150 politicians from across Europe have been included on harmful deepfake pornography sites in recent years, according to an investigation to which Wired had access. An analysis of 160 deepfake sites reveals that politicians from 22 countries appear on them.
Nearly all are women. The vast majority of victims are female politicians whose faces were used in explicit videos without their consent.
Some of these politicians have their names and photographs listed on disturbing, database-style profiles that may link to deepfake creation tools, indicating an organized and systematic level of abuse.
The analysis of around 160 domains hosting deepfake abuse was conducted as part of the investigation that exposed this network of digital violence against European public figures.
