Deepfake Harassment Campaigns: How to Discover and Find Your Face

Deepfake intimate images are increasingly weaponized in coordinated harassment campaigns, targeting journalists, activists, domestic violence survivors, and others. Campaign operators use deepfakes to combine sexual humiliation with reputation damage across multiple platforms simultaneously. The coordination and scale of these campaigns necessitate a correspondingly coordinated discovery process to find all content.

How coordinated deepfake harassment works

Coordinated harassment campaigns typically involve: creation of deepfake intimate content from publicly available photos; coordinated posting across multiple platforms simultaneously; mass sharing to the victim's personal and professional contacts; and re-upload campaigns that immediately restore content after each detection. The goal is to overwhelm the victim's ability to respond.

The discovery response: simultaneous multi-platform scan

Coordinated harassment requires coordinated discovery. ScanErase's simultaneous multi-platform scan examines all identified platforms, preventing perpetrators from treating each platform's findings as isolated while content remains on others. Every platform is addressed at once in the discovery process.

Documentation for potential investigation

Coordinated harassment campaigns create evidence of organized criminal conduct, including conspiracy to commit violations. The documentation, capturing the coordination pattern, timing, and platform distribution, serves as valuable information for potential investigations targeting the organizers rather than individual posts.