Prof Clare McGlynn
@claremcglynn.bsky.social
Professor of Law, Durham Uni and expert on violence against women and girls, particularly: #SexualViolence #metaverse #porn #cyberflashing #OnlineAbuse #ImageBasedSexualAbuse.
www.ClareMcGlynn.com
@McGlynnClare on the platform that looks much the same
www.ClareMcGlynn.com
@McGlynnClare on the platform that looks much the same
My comment in @theguardian.com on why the new law requiring porn and social media platforms to remove choking/strangulation content is very welcome.
November 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My comment in @theguardian.com on why the new law requiring porn and social media platforms to remove choking/strangulation content is very welcome.
Done an 'official' post - but actually now sharing this 😀
Can't emphasise how exciting it is for your ordinary academic to have their book featured like this - might even be that it's not just libraries that buy it😀
#Exposed 25% off for pre-orders this week
www.waterstones.com/book/exposed...
Can't emphasise how exciting it is for your ordinary academic to have their book featured like this - might even be that it's not just libraries that buy it😀
#Exposed 25% off for pre-orders this week
www.waterstones.com/book/exposed...
October 14, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Done an 'official' post - but actually now sharing this 😀
Can't emphasise how exciting it is for your ordinary academic to have their book featured like this - might even be that it's not just libraries that buy it😀
#Exposed 25% off for pre-orders this week
www.waterstones.com/book/exposed...
Can't emphasise how exciting it is for your ordinary academic to have their book featured like this - might even be that it's not just libraries that buy it😀
#Exposed 25% off for pre-orders this week
www.waterstones.com/book/exposed...
🔊New Book Announcement *Exposed: The Rise of Extreme Porn and How We Fight Back* pre-order now 🙂
Aims to spark debate about the misogynistic, racist & sexually violent nature of mainstream porn.
Pre-order discount 14-17 Oct: 25% off with OCTOBER25 at Waterstones
www.waterstones.com/book/exposed...
Aims to spark debate about the misogynistic, racist & sexually violent nature of mainstream porn.
Pre-order discount 14-17 Oct: 25% off with OCTOBER25 at Waterstones
www.waterstones.com/book/exposed...
October 14, 2025 at 10:24 AM
🔊New Book Announcement *Exposed: The Rise of Extreme Porn and How We Fight Back* pre-order now 🙂
Aims to spark debate about the misogynistic, racist & sexually violent nature of mainstream porn.
Pre-order discount 14-17 Oct: 25% off with OCTOBER25 at Waterstones
www.waterstones.com/book/exposed...
Aims to spark debate about the misogynistic, racist & sexually violent nature of mainstream porn.
Pre-order discount 14-17 Oct: 25% off with OCTOBER25 at Waterstones
www.waterstones.com/book/exposed...
Want to know more about ChatGPT being sued for encouraging and assisting a teenager's suicide?
Here's the full legal submissions from the parents
#TriggerWarning it reproduces some of the chats where ChatGPT gave advice about different suicide methods
www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...
Here's the full legal submissions from the parents
#TriggerWarning it reproduces some of the chats where ChatGPT gave advice about different suicide methods
www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...
August 28, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Want to know more about ChatGPT being sued for encouraging and assisting a teenager's suicide?
Here's the full legal submissions from the parents
#TriggerWarning it reproduces some of the chats where ChatGPT gave advice about different suicide methods
www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...
Here's the full legal submissions from the parents
#TriggerWarning it reproduces some of the chats where ChatGPT gave advice about different suicide methods
www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/u...
Intimate images are being shared on mainstream media, against the law in Serbia, to shame and silence women - and no action is being taken.
Every day there are new stories about the extent of image abuse against women and girls #darktimes
balkaninsight.com/2025/08/28/i...
Every day there are new stories about the extent of image abuse against women and girls #darktimes
balkaninsight.com/2025/08/28/i...
August 28, 2025 at 2:31 PM
Intimate images are being shared on mainstream media, against the law in Serbia, to shame and silence women - and no action is being taken.
Every day there are new stories about the extent of image abuse against women and girls #darktimes
balkaninsight.com/2025/08/28/i...
Every day there are new stories about the extent of image abuse against women and girls #darktimes
balkaninsight.com/2025/08/28/i...
August 22, 2025 at 1:26 PM
My latest comment on - why we need to talk about 'sexual digital forgeries' not "deepfake p0rn."
Terminology matters - it shapes our debates, laws and policies. Forgery underlines this is stealing someone's identity.
with Ruya Tuna Toparlak
journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/why-we-...
Terminology matters - it shapes our debates, laws and policies. Forgery underlines this is stealing someone's identity.
with Ruya Tuna Toparlak
journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/why-we-...
July 25, 2025 at 10:58 AM
My latest comment on - why we need to talk about 'sexual digital forgeries' not "deepfake p0rn."
Terminology matters - it shapes our debates, laws and policies. Forgery underlines this is stealing someone's identity.
with Ruya Tuna Toparlak
journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/why-we-...
Terminology matters - it shapes our debates, laws and policies. Forgery underlines this is stealing someone's identity.
with Ruya Tuna Toparlak
journaloflawandsociety.co.uk/blog/why-we-...
Excellent article from Anna Moore emphasising the serious risks of choking/strangulation during sex, with my comments on the proposed regulation of depictions in prnography:
July 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Excellent article from Anna Moore emphasising the serious risks of choking/strangulation during sex, with my comments on the proposed regulation of depictions in prnography:
I love this on #Barbie and constitutions and feminist analysis.
It's creative, funny, inspiring as well as a direct call to change. Thanks for the very best of academic writing @ruthhoughton.bsky.social @aoifemod.bsky.social @colinmurray.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It's creative, funny, inspiring as well as a direct call to change. Thanks for the very best of academic writing @ruthhoughton.bsky.social @aoifemod.bsky.social @colinmurray.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
June 4, 2025 at 7:00 AM
I love this on #Barbie and constitutions and feminist analysis.
It's creative, funny, inspiring as well as a direct call to change. Thanks for the very best of academic writing @ruthhoughton.bsky.social @aoifemod.bsky.social @colinmurray.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
It's creative, funny, inspiring as well as a direct call to change. Thanks for the very best of academic writing @ruthhoughton.bsky.social @aoifemod.bsky.social @colinmurray.bsky.social
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
The End of #MrDeepfakes? Seems that for now, this notorious website - responsible for the exponential rise in deepfake sexual abuse - has shut itself down. About time. It's responsible for the abuse of thousands.
May 5, 2025 at 8:41 AM
The End of #MrDeepfakes? Seems that for now, this notorious website - responsible for the exponential rise in deepfake sexual abuse - has shut itself down. About time. It's responsible for the abuse of thousands.
Meta is promoting 'submissive schoolgirl' AI chatbots. Normalising and legitimising child sexual abuse. Deliberately. For Profit.
That's the AI revolution for you. At the same time as the highest reports of sexual assault are from 14 year old girls.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...
That's the AI revolution for you. At the same time as the highest reports of sexual assault are from 14 year old girls.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...
April 28, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Meta is promoting 'submissive schoolgirl' AI chatbots. Normalising and legitimising child sexual abuse. Deliberately. For Profit.
That's the AI revolution for you. At the same time as the highest reports of sexual assault are from 14 year old girls.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...
That's the AI revolution for you. At the same time as the highest reports of sexual assault are from 14 year old girls.
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...
New: From Virtual Rape to Meta-Rape: Sexual Violence, Criminal law & the Metaverse. Pleased it's finally out as it's been a few years in the making-always postponed by 'urgent' crises. But that’s the problem: we’re not doing enough to anticipate emerging abuses
academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...
academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...
April 23, 2025 at 8:20 AM
New: From Virtual Rape to Meta-Rape: Sexual Violence, Criminal law & the Metaverse. Pleased it's finally out as it's been a few years in the making-always postponed by 'urgent' crises. But that’s the problem: we’re not doing enough to anticipate emerging abuses
academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...
academic.oup.com/ojls/advance...
Many of you may have seen my previous policy briefings on this issue – this article gives the full analysis. Benefits from my collaborations with many survivors and orgs working to end VAW including #JodieCampaigns @evawuk.bsky.social Revenge Porn Helpline #NotYourPorn #MyImageMyChoice
April 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Many of you may have seen my previous policy briefings on this issue – this article gives the full analysis. Benefits from my collaborations with many survivors and orgs working to end VAW including #JodieCampaigns @evawuk.bsky.social Revenge Porn Helpline #NotYourPorn #MyImageMyChoice
🚨New Publication on *Creating* Sexually Explicit Deepfakes & Criminal Law.
Pleased to share my latest research with Ruya Tuna Toparlak on why term 'sexual digital forgeries' is preferred, distinct harms of creation & analysis of law reforms around the world onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Pleased to share my latest research with Ruya Tuna Toparlak on why term 'sexual digital forgeries' is preferred, distinct harms of creation & analysis of law reforms around the world onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
April 7, 2025 at 7:08 AM
🚨New Publication on *Creating* Sexually Explicit Deepfakes & Criminal Law.
Pleased to share my latest research with Ruya Tuna Toparlak on why term 'sexual digital forgeries' is preferred, distinct harms of creation & analysis of law reforms around the world onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Pleased to share my latest research with Ruya Tuna Toparlak on why term 'sexual digital forgeries' is preferred, distinct harms of creation & analysis of law reforms around the world onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Disingenuous is the mild response to this story. The Online Safety Act will have no bearing on the Tate-type misogyny online as it’s mostly lawful. There is no ‘crack down’.
March 8, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Disingenuous is the mild response to this story. The Online Safety Act will have no bearing on the Tate-type misogyny online as it’s mostly lawful. There is no ‘crack down’.
Trumps in news for different reason today - Melania speaks out against deepfake sexual abuse, supporting the cross-party Take It Down Act.
What are the lessons from the US Take It Down Act for the UK? We too need binding obligations on platforms to remove non-consensual content.
What are the lessons from the US Take It Down Act for the UK? We too need binding obligations on platforms to remove non-consensual content.
March 4, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Trumps in news for different reason today - Melania speaks out against deepfake sexual abuse, supporting the cross-party Take It Down Act.
What are the lessons from the US Take It Down Act for the UK? We too need binding obligations on platforms to remove non-consensual content.
What are the lessons from the US Take It Down Act for the UK? We too need binding obligations on platforms to remove non-consensual content.
My challenge to @Google to take far more proactive steps to reduce deepfake sexual abuse. Relying on reports by victims is wrong approach. Me👇🏽at #AIActionSummit in Paris at even organised by French Gov’t Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online #FreedomOnline
February 13, 2025 at 7:25 AM
My challenge to @Google to take far more proactive steps to reduce deepfake sexual abuse. Relying on reports by victims is wrong approach. Me👇🏽at #AIActionSummit in Paris at even organised by French Gov’t Laboratory for Women’s Rights Online #FreedomOnline
President Macron: key message is to come to EU and France to innovate in AI. #AIActionSummit My key message? Gender and human rights already being forgotten in race for ££££
February 10, 2025 at 5:36 PM
President Macron: key message is to come to EU and France to innovate in AI. #AIActionSummit My key message? Gender and human rights already being forgotten in race for ££££
Discussion today at #AIActionSummit mostly ignored gender. Glimmer of hope from Global Partnership for Action new call for gender to be integral to development and regulation of AI.
But to secure human rights and freedoms we need mandatory rules & oversight. www.gov.uk/government/p...
But to secure human rights and freedoms we need mandatory rules & oversight. www.gov.uk/government/p...
February 10, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Discussion today at #AIActionSummit mostly ignored gender. Glimmer of hope from Global Partnership for Action new call for gender to be integral to development and regulation of AI.
But to secure human rights and freedoms we need mandatory rules & oversight. www.gov.uk/government/p...
But to secure human rights and freedoms we need mandatory rules & oversight. www.gov.uk/government/p...
For more detail, you can read my article with Nicole Westmarland #KaleidoscopicJustice on the varied ways victim-survivors understand justice
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
January 29, 2025 at 10:11 AM
For more detail, you can read my article with Nicole Westmarland #KaleidoscopicJustice on the varied ways victim-survivors understand justice
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Creating deepfakes violates a person’s right to privacy and sexual autonomy, striking at the heart of their sexual life. The European Court of Human Rights has repeatedly highlighted the importance of safeguarding these intimate rights and emphasised the harm of intrusions through imagery.
January 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Creating deepfakes violates a person’s right to privacy and sexual autonomy, striking at the heart of their sexual life. The European Court of Human Rights has repeatedly highlighted the importance of safeguarding these intimate rights and emphasised the harm of intrusions through imagery.
My briefing to Parliamentarians last week argued that regulation enhances human rights and protects women’s freedom of expression.
Criminalising creation of sexually explicit deepfakes is a legitimate restriction on Article 10 to protect victims' Article 8 rights. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Criminalising creation of sexually explicit deepfakes is a legitimate restriction on Article 10 to protect victims' Article 8 rights. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
January 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
My briefing to Parliamentarians last week argued that regulation enhances human rights and protects women’s freedom of expression.
Criminalising creation of sexually explicit deepfakes is a legitimate restriction on Article 10 to protect victims' Article 8 rights. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Criminalising creation of sexually explicit deepfakes is a legitimate restriction on Article 10 to protect victims' Article 8 rights. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
🚨 New: UK Government has changed its approach to deepfake sexual abuse laws – moving to a consent-based model - following months of challenge. Worrying tho that they initially opposed this citing 'free speech'. My response ⬇️
January 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
🚨 New: UK Government has changed its approach to deepfake sexual abuse laws – moving to a consent-based model - following months of challenge. Worrying tho that they initially opposed this citing 'free speech'. My response ⬇️
Should it be unlawful to ask someone to make a sexually explicit deepfake for you?
Yes. However, contrary to Ministry of Justice, we believe that a specific law is needed to ensure all cases are covered.
We've written to @alexdaviesjones.bsky.social
New briefing w @gemmadaviesuk.bsky.social
Yes. However, contrary to Ministry of Justice, we believe that a specific law is needed to ensure all cases are covered.
We've written to @alexdaviesjones.bsky.social
New briefing w @gemmadaviesuk.bsky.social
January 14, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Should it be unlawful to ask someone to make a sexually explicit deepfake for you?
Yes. However, contrary to Ministry of Justice, we believe that a specific law is needed to ensure all cases are covered.
We've written to @alexdaviesjones.bsky.social
New briefing w @gemmadaviesuk.bsky.social
Yes. However, contrary to Ministry of Justice, we believe that a specific law is needed to ensure all cases are covered.
We've written to @alexdaviesjones.bsky.social
New briefing w @gemmadaviesuk.bsky.social