- Title: South Korean media watchdog pledges to counter illegal deepfake contents
- Date: 28th August 2024
- Summary: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA (AUGUST 28, 2024) (REUTERS) CHAIRPERSON OF KOREA COMMUNICATIONS STANDARDS COMMISSION (KCSC), RYU HEE-LIM, ATTENDING GENERAL MEETING ON COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST SPREAD OF DEEPFAKE PORNOGRAPHY ON TELEGRAM (SOUNDBITE) (Korean) CHAIRPERSON OF KOREA COMMUNICATIONS STANDARDS COMMISSION (KCSC), RYU HEE-LIM, SAYING: “Recently, deepfake technology is being misused
- Embargoed: 11th September 2024 05:40
- Keywords: South Korea The Korea Communications Standards Commission deepfakes measures regulator sex crimes telegram
- Location: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
- City: SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA
- Country: South Korea
- Topics: Asia / Pacific,Crime/Law/Justice,Crime
- Reuters ID: LVA001972728082024RP1
- Aspect Ratio: 16:9
- Story Text: The Korea Communications Standards Commission, the state media regulator, held a meeting on Wednesday (August 28) to discuss measures to counter sexually explicit deepfakes.
Over recent days, domestic media have reported that sexually explicit deepfake images and videos of South Korean women were often found in Telegram chatrooms.
The reports have coincided with the arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram's Russian-born founder, on the weekend - part of a French probe into child pornography, drug trafficking and fraud on the encrypted messaging app.
The head of the commission, Ryu Hee-lim, pledged to increase personnel to monitor the social media platforms to quickly detect and remove illegal deepfakes contents there. Ryu also added that his organisation will form a partnership with these social media platforms to enact further measures against deepfakes crimes.
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