this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2026
180 points (98.4% liked)

Technology

85297 readers
3915 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

  1. Follow the lemmy.world rules.
  2. Only tech related news or articles.
  3. Be excellent to each other!
  4. Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
  5. Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
  6. Politics threads may be removed.
  7. No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
  8. Only approved bots from the list below, this includes using AI responses and summaries. To ask if your bot can be added please contact a mod.
  9. Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed
  10. Accounts 7 days and younger will have their posts automatically removed.

Approved Bots

founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
L3s@lemmy.world
enu@lemmy.world
technopagan@lemmy.world
L4s@lemmy.world
L3s@hackingne.ws
180
A high-profile Chinese activist in the UK, who was inundated with deepfake posts on X portraying her as a sexually promiscuous drug addict, told by X that abusive deepfakes do not breach the rules of (www.theguardian.com)
submitted 5 hours ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
11 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1187858/a-high-profile-chinese-activist-in-the-uk-who-was-inundated-with-deepfake-posts-on-x-por

top 11 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 7 points 1 hour ago

That's one of the most remarkable things I've noticed in joining the fediverse (mastodon years ago and lemmy the past couple years).

When people are in charge of their own social media platforms, there's not less censorship. It just serves a different purpose.

In many ways, speech is more restricted on large federated platforms, but it is for the purpose of protecting people. You can't just go around being a racist troll or sex pest. It turns out that people actually like limiting speech when people are not the product. The issue in this article would never happen where people have complete freedom and control of their media.

Yet somehow I think if the subject of the deepfakes were Elon, then the response would be different. πŸ€”

[–] Th4tGuyII@fedia.io 56 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Alright, you all heard TwitterX

If it's okay to make abusive deepfakes of public activists, then go for the jugular and start making abusive deepfakes of Elon. See how long that rule sticks around for when its their owner getting hurt.

[–] CaptPretentious@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago

Or, hear me out. You go for a bigger baby... just target the shit out of Trump and Vance.

Elon will just do what he needs to do to silence the posts and posters. But if the platform is making deepfakes of Trump... that'll cause more tension between them. Have deepfakes of Trump bragging about getting away with the Epstein files, scamming over his mindless followers, etc. (Lets be honest, they'd be fake videos of things that actually happened.) Just flood it. And make all of them click bait as hell.

[–] Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago

Well they didn't make porn of her giving food to Palestinian children so it's legal in the ZK.

[–] halcyoncmdr@piefed.social 30 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

So... Defamation is officially okay over at twitter. On the record.

Just clarifying here.

[–] rayyy@piefed.social 12 points 4 hours ago

Defamation of those "others" is officially okay. FTFY

[–] palordrolap@fedia.io 18 points 4 hours ago

Oh, I do hope that there won't be an influx of Elon Musk deepfakes on Xitter any time soon, because that would be terrible.

[–] Astrealix@lemmy.world 9 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

the CCP is one of the vilest ruling parties and in charge of one of the worst governments in the world. She isn't the only activist who has had this harassment. Obviously massive disgrace from Twitter, but as much as them taking action would help, the issue will not be solved as long as the Communist Party persists.

[–] NotAnotherLemmyUser@lemmy.world 3 points 1 hour ago

Adding onto this. Just a few highlights from the article:

She said: β€œI posted a poster for the Tiananmen Square massacre commemoration in Sutton and right after that, that account made deepfake images about me. They’ve been tagging my username since they started it.

Ni said that one of the posts accusing her of animal abuse had correctly written that she had a cat. She said: β€œI feel like they’re doing some kind of profiling of me … Every time I go out, I feel like I might be followed or watched. And I actually think that might be the case.”

Considering that there are secret Chinese police stations in other countries that target people like her, she likely is correct.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_police_overseas_service_stations

[–] turtlesareneat@piefed.ca 2 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Weird take, I am not ready to just say "oh it's fine when X does this because the CCP started it."

[–] Astrealix@lemmy.world 13 points 4 hours ago

I didn't say it's fine when Twitter does this. I specifically said it isn't remotely okay. My point is only that this is not the only case of the CCP doing this, and that Twitter is not the only avenue it uses to do so.