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An earlier ADT report found that 138 female parliamentarians from 22 EU countries had been affected
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Schilling described the images as a form of “digital violence against women” piled on top of the already disproportionate amount of sexist abuse, harassment and violence that women in politics faced.
Key facts
- An earlier ADT report found that 138 female parliamentarians from 22 EU countries had been affected, and that women were 33 times more likely than their male colleagues to be depicted
- Schilling is one of 50 MEPs, 46 of them women, who have been targeted by sexualised deepfakes, according to a report by Agora Digitale Transformation (ADT)
- The sentiment was captured in a recent letter to the EU initiated by Schilling and the German Green MEP Terry Reintke
- An Austrian MEP has spoken out about her experience of being “stripped naked” online without her consent and has urged the EU to take action, as a report found that one in six female MEPs
Summary
An Austrian MEP has spoken out about her experience of being “stripped naked” online without her consent and has urged the EU to take action, as a report found that one in six female MEPs had been targeted by sexualised AI-generated content. Lena Schilling of the Green party said she had learned last month about nude deepfakes of herself circulating online. It was a shocking twist on a defining moment of her career. Schilling is one of 50 MEPs, 46 of them women, who have been targeted by sexualised deepfakes, according to a report by Agora Digitale Transformation (ADT). The Berlin-based thinktank, which alerted Schilling to the presence of the images online, said the finding laid bare how deepfake pornography had become a “systemic threat to women in European politics”.