New York Seizes a Dozen Celebrity Deepfake Websites

Law-enforcement takedowns targeted multiple websites that hosted and monetized synthetic nonconsensual intimate imagery (deepfakes) of celebrities and politicians. The sites, some active since 2018 and viewed many thousands to millions of times, hosted explicit manipulated videos including political figures; researchers argue the response shows coordinated enforcement is possible but that broader action is needed across creation tools, hosting infrastructure, discovery/promotion, and payment systems.