<p>For years, Mr. Deepfakes was the most popular site in the world for&nbsp;DeepFake&nbsp;porn. The site hosted tens of thousands of non-consensual and violent DeepFake videos. DeepFake porn uses AI to swap a person's face onto somebody else's body, and technology has made the results incredibly realistic.</p><p><br></p><p>Now anyone can make a deep fake of&nbsp;anyone. The Mr. DeepFake site had half a million users, some paying hundreds of dollars to create custom videos.</p><p><br></p><p>Tech journalist Sam Cole was the first person to report on DeepFake porn back in 2017. And in this season of&nbsp;Understood: DeepFake Porn Empire, she explores the popularity of non-consensual DeepFake porn, why our legal system has had to struggle to ban it and introduces us to the kingpin behind it all.</p><p><br></p><p>You can listen to Sam's podcast&nbsp;<a href="https://link.mgln.ai/J8gUe6" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.&nbsp;&nbsp;</p><p><br></p><p>You can read Ida Herskind's investigation into Mr.Deepfakes&nbsp;<a href="http://politiken.dk/edition/news/art10402336/On-the-surface-he-lives-a-quiet-life-in-the-suburbs.-But-now-we-can-reveal-the-identity-of-the-man-behind-the-worlds-largest-deepfake-porn-site" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><br></p><p>You can read the CBC News investigation into Mr.Deepfakes by Eric Szeto, Jordan Pearson, Ivan Angelovski&nbsp;<a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/mrdeepfakes-porn-website-key-figure-1.7527626" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><br></p><p>You can read the Tjekdet investigation&nbsp;<a href="https://www.tjekdet.dk/indsigt/her-er-manden-bag-verdens-stoerste-hjemmeside-deepfake-porno" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><br></p><p>And you can read the Bellingcat reporting&nbsp;<a href="https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05/07/canadian-pharmacist-linked-to-worlds-most-notorious-deepfake-porn-site/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>