How a victim of DeepFake porn found her harasser

For years, Mr. Deepfakes was the most popular site in the world for DeepFake porn. The site hosted tens of thousands of non-consensual and violent DeepFake videos. DeepFake porn uses AI to swap a person's face onto somebody else's body, and technology has made the results incredibly realistic.

Now anyone can make a deep fake of anyone. The Mr. DeepFake site had half a million users, some paying hundreds of dollars to create custom videos.

Tech journalist Sam Cole was the first person to report on DeepFake porn back in 2017. And in this season of Understood: DeepFake Porn Empire, she explores the popularity of non-consensual DeepFake porn, why our legal system has had to struggle to ban it and introduces us to the kingpin behind it all.

You can listen to Sam's podcast here.  

You can read Ida Herskind's investigation into Mr.Deepfakes here.

You can read the CBC News investigation into Mr.Deepfakes by Eric Szeto, Jordan Pearson, Ivan Angelovski here.

You can read the Tjekdet investigation here.

And you can read the Bellingcat reporting here.