Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
Vittoria ElliottMatt BurgessPoliticsAug 18, 2026 10:45 AMMeta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female PoliticiansOne advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician. Requests for comment sent to a contact listed in the app went unanswered.Apple has struggled to keep similar tools, which violate its policies against nonconsensual intimate imagery, nudifying, and sexually explicit content, off the App Store. In all, the account tied to the campaign ran 32 ads, according to Meta, which ran for between five and 46 hours.
- ▪Vittoria ElliottMatt BurgessPoliticsAug 18, 2026 10:45 AMMeta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female PoliticiansOne advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician.
- ▪Requests for comment sent to a contact listed in the app went unanswered.Apple has struggled to keep similar tools, which violate its policies against nonconsensual intimate imagery, nudifying, and sexually explicit content, off the App Sto
- ▪In all, the account tied to the campaign ran 32 ads, according to Meta, which ran for between five and 46 hours.
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Vittoria ElliottMatt BurgessPoliticsAug 18, 2026 10:45 AMMeta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female PoliticiansOne advertisement featured a pornographic video with a deepfake closely resembling a prominent US politician. Apple removed the app from the App Store after an inquiry from WIRED.Photo-Illustration: Jobanny Cabrera; Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyMeta platforms recently ran ads for an AI porn-generation tool that seemingly encouraged users to create deepfaked videos resembling female US politicians, despite the company’s policies against ads containing sexual material.
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