In 2021, Sante, who was assigned male at birth, was playing around with a face-altering app and she had a breakthrough. Her new memoir is I Heard... A gender-swapping photo app helped Lucy Sante come ...

App stores removed Facemega, a deepfake app that put Emma Watson's face in a suggestive video. The suggestive ad was promoted on Meta, which later removed it following reporting from NBC News. An ...

While mainstream social networks like Facebook and Instagram have had their services blocked by state authorities in Russia in recent days, as the Kremlin seeks total control of the narrative around ...

Many people download face-transforming apps. Whether these apps are used to predict how much we will age in the next 20 years, or to simply touch up a selfie before posting it on social media, the aps ...

Writer Lucy Sante has been asking herself "Who am I?" for the better part of her life. Sante, who was assigned male at birth, says changing genders was a strange and electric idea that lived in the ...

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