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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Oliver Laughland

‘Staying silent? Not an option’: family takes fight against deepfake nudes to Washington

Francesca Mani, 14, with her mother, Dorota, in Washington, DC, on 7 March 2024
Francesca Mani, 14, with her mother, Dorota, in Washington, DC, on 7 March 2024. Photograph: Shuran Huang/For The Guardian

In October last year, Francesca Mani came home from school in the suburbs of New Jersey with devastating news for her mother, Dorota.

Earlier in the day the 14-year-old had been called into the vice-principal’s office and notified that she and a group of girls at Westfield High had been the victims of targeted abuse by a fellow student.

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