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These are fast, real reads about what's actually going on with deepfakes and sextortion among people your age — including one stat worth knowing before anything else:
1 in 5 teens surveyed believed it was legal to make a deepfake nude of another minor. It isn't. Not close.
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Elliston Berry — one of DIF's own advisors — was 14 when classmates made AI deepfakes of her. This piece covers the 17-minute training course she helped build for students, teachers, and parents. Start here.
Read at CNN →On one of the specific fears deepfakes create that other forms of abuse don't: worrying that if the images are fake, no one will believe the harm was real. If that fear sounds familiar, this one's for you.
Read at Thorn →A more candid look than most coverage manages: teens are on both sides of this, sometimes without fully clocking what they're doing as abuse. Useful for understanding the whole picture, not just the victim's side.
Read at Common Sense Media →A clear, well-explained look at how normalized this has become at schools — good if you want to understand the mechanics of how it spreads, not just that it does.
Read at Scientific American →On the gap between how fast this is happening and how slow schools and platforms have been to respond — and what's changed since the TAKE IT DOWN Act.
Read at NBC News →Keep Learning
Every form this abuse takes, and the language to name it.
Read →The researchers, journalists, and survivors whose work built this field, from the US, UK, and Canada.
Read →Five of the biggest recent cases, and what each one changed.
Read →How the internet is actually built, and why a 48-hour takedown law only reaches one layer of it.
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