Deepfake porn site targets female politicians

Just when you think the election campaign can’t get any madder, it does. Now it transpires that a ‘deepfake’ porn site has posted a slew of doctored images bearing the likenesses of 30 female politicians – including deputy Labour leader Angela Rayner to senior Tory Penny Mordaunt. You couldn’t make it up…

The targets of the dodgy photos – produced using artificial intelligence – are not confined to one particular party. As well as Rayner and Mordaunt, an investigation by Channel 4 News found that outgoing Tory Dehenna Davison and left-wing Labour candidate Stella Creasey were also featured. Davison has slammed the revelations as ‘disturbing’ and ‘violating’, while vocal feminist campaigner Creasey raged:

I felt absolutely sick to my stomach when you contacted me to let me know. It’s a form of sexual abuse. I am in the position where obviously I had to tell my partner about it because none of this is about sexual pleasure, it’s all about power and control.