How one small town battled a deepfake-porn criminal

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  Hey there, just a quick note.

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  This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual imagery involving minors.

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  So please keep that in mind before listening.

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  This is In Conversation from Apple News.

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  I'm Shamita Basu.

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  Today, how the victims of a deepfake porn scandal fought back.

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  In the early spring of 2020, a small,

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  quiet Long Island suburb called Levittown was hit by a scandal the town never saw coming.

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  It all started shortly after the pandemic lockdowns,

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  when a recent high school graduate named Kayla was at her parents' house,

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  and her father, a police officer, came up to her room.

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  He always knocks on the door, so he knocked and just, like, walked right in.

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  I thought... I was in trouble or something.

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  But then I could just tell he was just confused.

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  He held out his phone and showed Kayla a photo of herself,

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  a photo that she remembered taking in her friend's backyard wearing a bathing suit,

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  except... I didn't have a bathing suit on anymore.

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  And it was just me naked.

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  Well, not me, but me with someone else's body parts on my body parts.

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  Her dad had found dozens of pornographic images of his daughter, and they looked incredibly real.

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