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Telegram’s deepfake porn scandal: Messaging app faces backlash in South Korea

This issue has become part of a larger digital sex crime crisis in the country, prompting the platform to issue a formal apology to South Korean authorities. Deepfakes are synthetic videos created using artificial intelligence (AI) that can superimpose a person’s face onto another body. In South Korea, many Telegram chat rooms, often run by teenagers, were found distributing deepfake pornography, mainly targeting young women.