Deepfake nudes are flooding social media. Here’s what’s being done about it

In 2020, Selena Scola won a landmark class-action lawsuit against Facebook after spending eight and a half months working as a content moderator. She alleged that constant exposure to extreme graphic content – including sexual abuse and child endangerment – on the platform led to post-traumatic stress disorder.

Even six years later, she can no longer watch her favorite horror films. Violence in film or television destabilizes her. She experienced what she calls "digital death," an inability to use social media that led to strained social connections; she just recently began using platforms like Facebook again.

Scola said that more recently, she has become the focus of online abuse and has to preserve evidence of doxxing, sexual imagery and threats against her.

"I once moderated harmful content to protect Facebook and Instagram users, now I am stuck reviewing abuse directed at me to protect myself," she said.

Since her time as a moderator, the internet has, some argue, become an even darker place.

"Previously, much of the harmful material I reviewed had been photographed, recorded or livestreamed by a person," Scola explained. "Generative AI now enables users to manufacture non-consensual intimate imagery and child sexual abuse material, including from ordinary…

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