and in Australia, but many victims have struggled to find recourse when images can be uploaded anonymously from anywhere. Legislation targeting nonconsensual sexually explicit deepfakes has been passed in some U.S. Some tweets from that account containing deepfakes had been online for weeks. One account that shared images of D’Amelio had accrued more than 16,000 followers. Some Twitter accounts that shared deepfakes appeared to be operating out in the open. In a statement to NBC News, Discord said its Community Guidelines “clearly prohibit the promotion or sharing of non-consensual intimate materials.” Some accounts appeared to be posting the same deepfakes repeatedly in an effort to direct people to other platforms such as Discord or Telegram, where deepfake material is often openly exchanged. Using Twitter’s search function, queries for the names of Rae, D’Amelio and Poarch turned up a wide variety of content, from fan accounts posting authentic, nonexplicit pictures and videos of them, to hardcore pornography and deepfakes.
In response to NBC News’ request for comment, Twitter’s press email sent its new automatic response, a poop emoji. Musk and Irwin have not commented publicly on nonconsensual deepfakes. Ella Irwin, the company’s most recent head of trust and safety, resigned last week. How Twitter enforces its rules has become the subject of growing scrutiny after Musk cut thousands of employees, including some on its trust and safety teams. Some of the links, including a sexually explicit deepfake video with Poarch’s likeness and multiple pornographic deepfake images of D’Amelio and her family, are still up. Twitter later suspended six of those accounts. Twitter did not respond to an emailed request for comment, which included links to nine accounts posting pornographic deepfakes. A tweet, since deleted, included a deepfake image of Addison Rae Easterling. The account frequently posts sexually suggestive tweets containing authentic videos of female celebrities that get similar attention. The person behind that Twitter account told NBC News they deleted the tweet after receiving backlash.
Top replies to the tweet with the deepfake of Easterling linked to a longer, sexually explicit version of that video. In comparison, Twitter owner Elon Musk’s pinned tweet had 26 million views as of publication. One particularly viral tweet posted May 31 - a short clip in which the face of Easterling was inserted onto the body of a woman on a bed - had been viewed more than 21 million times as of Tuesday, according to Twitter’s public view count.
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