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This Canadian pharmacist is key figure behind world’s most notorious deepfake porn site

MrDeepFakes was the world’s most notorious website for non-consensual deepfake porn until CBC’s visual investigations team — along with partners Bellingcat, Tjekdet and Politiken — exposed the Canadian pharmacist who played a key role in the site.Support is available for anyone who has experienced sexual violence. You can access crisis lines and local support services through this Government of Canada website (https://bit.ly/3D1rUmb) or the Ending Violence Association of Canada database (https://bit.ly/3ilpp67). If you’re in immediate danger or fear for your safety or that of others around you, please call 911.

David Do is, on the surface, unassuming and respectable. He owns a house just outside Toronto with his partner, drives a Tesla and is paid $121,000 a year as a hospital pharmacist.

But he …

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