{"id":255949,"date":"2026-01-21T10:15:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/255949\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T10:15:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T10:15:13","slug":"dissemination-of-deepfakes-will-be-the-abuse-scandal-of-the-21st-century-grainne-seoige-to-tell-media-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/255949\/","title":{"rendered":"Dissemination of deepfakes &#8216;will be the abuse scandal of the 21st century&#8217;, Gr\u00e1inne Seoige to tell media committee\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"\">The creation and dissemination of deepfake explicit images will be the \u201cabuse scandal of the 21st century if we do not act now\u201d, television presenter Gr\u00e1inne Seoige is set to tell TDs and senators.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Ms Seoige, a former Fianna F\u00e1il election candidate, is expected to tell the Oireachtas media committee that neither the garda\u00ed nor social media site Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp, can \u201ccredibly claim that the current legislation is fit for purpose\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The creation and dissemination of deepfake explicit images will be the \u201cabuse scandal of the 21st century if&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[220,218,2334,219,61,60,1634,58,80],"class_list":["post-255949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence-ai","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-media","tag-social-media","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}