Reporting Revenge Porn: a Preliminary Expert Analysis

TL;DR

This paper provides a preliminary expert analysis of how various online platforms handle reporting revenge porn and deepfake abuse, highlighting current practices and potential issues from the victims' perspective.

Contribution

It offers an initial assessment of reporting procedures across multiple content sharing platforms for revenge porn and deepfake abuse, identifying gaps and challenges.

Findings

Varied reporting procedures across platforms

Potential issues in abuse reporting processes

Insights into victim experiences and platform responses

Abstract

In our research, we focus on the response to the non-consensual distribution of intimate or sexually explicit digital images of adults, also referred as revenge porn, from the point of view of the victims. In this paper, we present a preliminary expert analysis of the process for reporting revenge porn abuses in selected content sharing platforms. Among these, we included social networks, image hosting websites, video hosting platforms, forums, and pornographic sites. We looked at the way to report abuse, concerning both the non-consensual online distribution of private sexual image or video (revenge pornography), as well as the use of deepfake techniques, where the face of a person can be replaced on original visual content with the aim of portraying the victim in the context of sexual behaviours. This preliminary analysis is directed to understand the current practices and potential issues in the procedures designed by the providers for reporting these abuses.