66% of internet users live where political or social sites are blocked, and 78% are in countries where people have been arrested for online posts. New social media regulations have emerged in dozens of countries in the past year alone.
The more than 3 million pages of documents include accusations by alleged victims of Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell's abuse and thousands of emails and photos showing Epstein associated with prominent figures.
Collien Fernandes accused her former husband Christian Ulmen of impersonating her online for years and sharing sexually explicit deepfake images. She expressed shock at discovering that hundreds of fake pornographic images of her had been circulating on the internet.
If you're anything like my parents, you probably wouldn't even understand most of the content that floods my social media, no matter how hard I try to avoid it. Here's a recent example from Instagram: Do y'all females ever tell ur homegirls Sis chill you letting too many dudes hit?' Essentially, that means: Women do you ever tell your girlfriends that they're whores and need to stop letting so many guys fuck them?
In A Sexual History of the Internet(2025), artist and researcher Mindy Seu proposes a different kind of archive: one that maps how bodies, desires, technologies, and systems of power have been entangled since the earliest days of our beloved web. Rather than frame this research through a traditional academic text or media theory, Seu retools the publishing format entirely, intentionally delivering the project as part performance, part artist book, and part financial experiment.
Victims of deepfake image abuse have called for stronger protection against AI-generated explicit images, as the law criminalising the creation of non-consensual intimate images comes into effect. Campaigners from Stop Image-Based Abuse delivered a petition to Downing Street with more than 73,000 signatures, urging the government to introduce civil routes to justice such as takedown orders for abusive imagery on platforms and devices.
