Meta Ran Ads for an App That Promised to Nudify Female Politicians
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Source: Wired (Security)August 18, 2026
Summary
Meta ran ads on its platforms promoting Kromix, an AI tool that creates deepfaked pornographic videos of real people, including female US politicians, despite Meta's stated policies against sexual content in ads. The ads were targeted exclusively to male users and remained live for 5-46 hours before being removed after a journalist inquiry, raising questions about how Meta's automated ad review system (software that checks ads against company policies before they are published) failed to catch this violation.
Classification
Attack SophisticationTrivial
Impact (CIA+S)
safety
Affected Vendors
MetaApple
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Original source: https://www.wired.com/story/meta-ran-ads-for-an-app-promising-to-nudify-female-politicians/
First tracked: August 18, 2026 at 02:01 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 85%