The videos were reportedly part of an advertising campaign for an app called FaceMega, and seemingly featured Watson and Scarlett Johansson.
broke the story, and reported that 230 videos were run across Facebook and Instagram. 127 of the ad videos featured Watson while 74 videos featured Johansson, all of which showed the actresses in provocative situations and had sexually suggestive themes.ega, and for $8 a week, users can swap out the faces of someone in a video with photos uploaded to the app. FaceMAdvertisement
“This could be used with high schoolers in public schools who are bullied,” Lauren Barton, who uploaded a screen recording of one of the videos to Twitter, said to NBC News. “It could ruin somebody’s life. They could get in trouble at their job. And this is extremely easy to do and free. All I had to do was upload a picture of my face and I had access to 50 free templates.
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