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Largest deepfake porn site shuts down forever

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"Mr. Deepfakes " shut down permanently this weekend , 404 Media reports.

The site was popular with users who used face-swapping techniques to make celebrities appear in porn videos.

At its peak, 43,000 videos were viewed more than 1.5 billion times on the platform.

Congress passed the Take It Down Act making it illegal to create and distribute non-consensual intimate imagery.

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