Tackling the rise in manipulated images, where a person’s face is put on someone else’s body, is part of a crackdown on the abuse of intimate pictures in the Online Safety Bill.
This law would also make it easier to charge people with sharing intimate photos without consent.
Prosecutors would no longer need to prove they intended to cause distress.
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