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Internet Infrastructure Services Empower Deepfake Abuse, New Study Finds

Occurred
Sep 30, 2026
Published
Sep 30, 2026
Source
404 Media

Summary

Cloudflare, Google, and Proton were among the "dominant" infrastructure providers to sites dedicated to hosting abusive content, the study found.

Tags

  • Deepfakes

Classification

Category confidence: 90%
Severity confidence: 80%

Rationale: Study identifies infrastructure providers enabling deepfake abuse sites, representing notable harm without immediate mass casualty or legal action.

Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8

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