X Blocks Taylor Swift Search after ‘Deepfake’ Image Spread — VOA Learning English
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The social media site X has blocked some searches for Taylor Swift in reaction to an online spread of pornographic deepfake images of the singer.
A “deepfake” is an image, sound recording, or video created to make it appear that people in it are saying or doing things that they did not say or do.
Attempts to search for her name without quotation marks on the site Monday resulted in a failure message. It asked users to retry their search. “Don’t fret — it’s not your fault,” also appeared.
However, putting quotation marks around her name permitted posts to show where her name appeared.
The images of Swift began spreading widely on X last week. She is now the most famous victim of a danger that…
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