Politicians from a second European country are calling for the extradition of the Canadian man behind a notorious, pornographic website which featured deepfake images and videos of celebrities, politicians and private citizens.
Members of three Dutch political parties — the VVD , GroenLinks-PvdA and BoerBurgerBewegin (BBB) are planning to submit a written request to have David Do extradited for his involvement in the MrDeepFakes website, Dutch newspaper AD first reported .
"People like this need to be punished … they have no idea what harm they are doing," Caroline van der Plas, leader of the BBB, told CBC News.
In May, CBC's Visual Investigation Unit — in collaboration with the open-source investigative outlet Bellingcat and the Danish publications Politiken and Tjekdet