'It was extremely pornographic': Cara Hunter on the deepfake video that nearly ended her political career

The Guardian 

'It was extremely pornographic': Cara Hunter on the deepfake video that nearly ended her political career The Irish politician was targeted in 2022, in the final weeks of her run for office. When Cara Hunter, the Irish politician, looks back on the moment she found out she had been deepfaked, she says it is "like watching a horror movie". The setting is her grandmother's rural home in the west of Tyrone on her 90th birthday, April 2022. "Everyone was there," she says. "I was sitting with all my closest family members and family friends when I got a notification through Facebook Messenger." It was from a stranger.