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
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
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/10/chinese-activist-uk-apple-peiqing-ni-x-deepfakes
14 Comments
Th4tGuyII@fedia.io · 84 pts · 65d
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 · 30 pts · 65d
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.
alakey@piefed.social · 9 pts · 65d
If you observed anything the right wingers did in the last few years, you'd know they already are doing that themselves. Vance literally wore his South Park baby face photoshop for Halloween. They are perfectly ok with everything you listed, in fact they believe it's a huge own that it bothers you and they get away with it. Trump said he could shoot anyone in the middle of the street and not lose any votes the first time around, this time he could literally nuke the US and still keep his voters.
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social · 41 pts · 65d
So... Defamation is officially okay over at twitter. On the record.
Just clarifying here.
rayyy@piefed.social · 18 pts · 65d
Defamation of those "others" is officially okay. FTFY
palordrolap@fedia.io · 23 pts · 65d
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.
gedaliyah@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 65d
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. 🤔
shish_mish@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 65d
Someone might test that and find out.
Astrealix@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 65d
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 · 11 pts · 65d
Adding onto this. Just a few highlights from the article:
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
Astrealix@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 65d
I think the fact that this is a statement that needed saying is evidenced by how many people (presumably from .ml or of similar inclinations) are downvoting this, lol.
turtlesareneat@piefed.ca · -3 pts · 65d
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 · 17 pts · 65d
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.
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 65d
Well they didn't make porn of her giving food to Palestinian children so it's legal in the ZK.