Deepfake “nudify” apps are exploding online, but who’s building them, and how do they operate in plain sight?

Kolina Koltai, an open-source intelligence investigator at Bellingcat, traces the infrastructure that keeps these services profitable: shell companies, copycat domains, redirect sites, and payment workarounds, and how investigations can pressure operators into shutting down.

We discuss:

* The digital paper trail nudify operators leave behind

* How these services evade app stores, payment processors, and hosting platforms

* Why targeting users misses the bigger problem: site owners and profit incentives

* The idea of “friction,” and why making abuse harder matters even if you can’t stop it completely

* The cultural shift needed to prevent this from becoming normalized

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