Twitch says deepfake porn is now grounds for instaban — here’s why

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It's been five full years since most online platforms made it crystal clear that face-swapped porn is not okay - but not Twitch, apparently. Today, in a blog post titled Addressing Explicit Deepfake Content," the livestreaming service now says that synthetic non-consensual exploitative images (NCEI) will not be tolerated.

Even a brief unintentional glimpse at those sorts of images will be removed and will result in an enforcement," the company writes. And if you intentionally promote, create, or share deepfake porn, that's grounds for an instaban: doing that can result in an indefinite suspension on the first offense."

The company isn't doing this on a whim - as BuzzFeed News and NBC News reported last month, Twitch recently had its...

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