Twitter declined to provide any comment, and instead pointed me to the company’s nonconsensual nudity policy. The original DailyMail.com tweet—nude photo, shortened link, and all—remains online, with 1,500 retweets and 2,300 likes.
The photos will indelibly remain on the rest of the internet, too. Once they were published by RedState and DailyMail.com, they seeped across networks and platforms and forums as people republished the images or turned them into memes or used them as the backdrop for their YouTube show. (After I contacted YouTube about some examples of the latter, it removed the videos for violating the site’s policy on harassment and bullying.)
It’s one of the many brutal aftershocks that this kind of privacy violation forces victims to endure.
“You can encourage these companies to do the right thing and to have policies in place and resources dedicated to taking down those kind of materials,” says Mary Anne Franks. “But what we know about the viral nature of especially salacious material is that by the time you take it down three days, four days, five days after the fact, it’s too late. So it may come down from a certain platform, but it’s not going to come down from the internet.”
Using AI to Fight Back
Two days after Katie Hill announced she was stepping down from office, Facebook published a post titled “Making Facebook a Safer, More Welcoming Place for Women.” The post, which had no byline, highlighted the company’s use of “cutting-edge technology” to detect nonconsensual porn, and to even block it from being posted in the first place.
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