“We are alarmed by the reports of the circulation of the … false images,” White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre told reporters Friday.
“While social media companies make their own independent decisions about content management, we believe they have an important role to play in enforcing their own rules to prevent the spread of misinformation and non-consensual, intimate imagery of real people,” Pierre continued.
She added, “Sadly, though, too often we know that lax enforcement disproportionately impacts women and they also impact girls, sadly, who are the overwhelming targets of online harassment and also abuse.”
Her comments followed the spread of
sexually explicit deepfake images of Swift online this week, that led to both backlash from her fans and renewed calls from lawmakers for social media companies to enforce their policies, our colleague Brett Samuels reported.
The spread of fake images of Swift has also fueled the conversation about the
potential risks of AI content.
Read more in a full report at TheHill.com.
