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    South Korea fights deepfake porn with tougher sanctions and regulations

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    Hyung Jin Kim
    | Associated Press

    Seoul, South Korea — South Korea announced a package of measures Wednesday aimed at curbing the rise of deepfake porn, saying it would toughen penalties on violators, expand the use of undercover agents and impose stricter regulations on media platforms social.

    Concerns about explicit, non-consensual video content that was digitally manipulated deepened in South Korea after unconfirmed lists of schools with victims surfaced online in August. Terrified, many girls and women deleted photos and videos from Instagram, Facebook and other social media accounts, while others held rallies calling for stronger measures against deepfake pornography.

    President Yoon Suk Yeol quickly confirmed the rapid spread of explicit and falsified content and ordered authorities to “eliminate these digital sex crimes.” Police are now carrying out a seven-month special crackdown which will continue until March 2025.

    A task force said in a statement that the government was working with lawmakers to review laws to increase penalties for perpetrators involved in crimes related to deepfake pornography.

    He cited a recently amended law that, for the first time, makes viewing or possessing deepfake porn illegal and punishable by up to three years in prison. The maximum penalty for those who produce or distribute deepfake pornographic content has been increased from five to seven years in prison.

    Police have arrested 506 suspects so far this year, including 411 aged between 10 and 19.

    The task force said it would encourage undercover online investigations, even in cases where the victims are adults. The law currently only allows such methods when the victims are minors. The government is also planning another overhaul that would allow authorities to confiscate profits made from deepfake pornography companies.

    The task force said it would push to more aggressively fine social media platforms when they fail to prevent the spread of deepfake and other illegal content. South Korea plans to increase the number of monitors on social media platforms to 26 from the current 12.

    The task force will also expand mandatory educational programs on digital sex crimes in schools and produce public awareness videos featuring celebrities popular with teens and twenty-somethings.

    Most of the alleged perpetrators of deepfake porn cases in South Korea are teenagers. Observers say boys target female friends, relatives and acquaintances – also mostly minors – as a prank, out of curiosity or misogyny.

    South Korea’s deepfake pornography problem has raised serious questions about school curriculums, but also threatened to widen an already troubled divide between men and women.

    According to experts, the prevalence of deepfake pornography in the country has been attributed to a mix of factors, including heavy use of smartphones, lack of comprehensive sexuality and human rights education in schools. schools, inadequate regulation of social media for minors, as well as misogyny and social media. norms that sexually objectify women.

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