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Miranda Cosgrove, Jeanette McCurdy, Ariana Grande, Scarlett Johansson, Maria Sharapova deepfake…
Dozens of fraudulent, sexualized deepfake images of female celebrities and athletes were widely shared on Facebook, garnering hundreds of thousands of likes and reshares. Meta removed the images after a CBS News…
- Incident date
- Feb 2025
- Target
- Miranda Cosgrove, Jeanette McCurdy, Ariana Grande, Scarlett Johansson, Maria Sharapova
Updated May 6, 2026 · 1 min read
Dozens of fraudulent, sexualized deepfake images of female celebrities and athletes were widely shared on Facebook, garnering hundreds of thousands of likes and reshares. Meta removed the images after a CBS News investigation, but many remained publicly available even after being flagged. The deepfakes used AI-generated bodies replacing those of celebrities in real photographs; some used image stitching.