--- title: Facebook and Instagram ran nudify-app ads from a single... description: The Tech Transparency Project found that Facebook and Instagram ran roughly 30,800 ads for face-swapping and AI nudify tools, with 7,600+ specifically... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/facebook-and-instagram-ran-nudify-app-ads-from-a-single-chinese-firm-watchdog-says-ahif2ljy7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Facebook and Instagram ran nudify-app ads from a single Chinese firm, watchdog says | daily.dev og:description: The Tech Transparency Project found that Facebook and Instagram ran roughly 30,800 ads for face-swapping and AI nudify tools, with 7,600+ specifically... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/facebook-and-instagram-ran-nudify-app-ads-from-a-single-chinese-firm-watchdog-says-ahif2ljy7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/ahiF2LJY7.png og:image:alt: Facebook and Instagram ran nudify-app ads from a single Chinese firm, watchdog says og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Facebook and Instagram ran nudify-app ads from a single Chinese firm, watchdog says **[The Next Web](https://daily.dev/sources/tnw)** · 4 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary The Tech Transparency Project found that Facebook and Instagram ran roughly 30,800 ads for face-swapping and AI nudify tools, with 7,600+ specifically promoting non-consensual intimate imagery of women. The ads trace back to 210 Facebook pages linked to a single Chinese firm called GatherOne. Despite Meta's claimed enforcement efforts — including lawsuits, detection tools, and sharing URLs through the Lantern industry program — researchers found the network still partially active. Post-enforcement studies counted over 4,000 more nudify ads reaching hundreds of thousands of EU and UK users. Regulatory pressure is mounting via the US TAKE IT DOWN Act and UK legislation criminalizing deepfake creation, but automated ad review continues to let these campaigns through. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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