Sexually explicit deepfakes are on the rise, proportionally affecting women.

In an attempt to combat the harmful content, Google is instituting a crackdown.

Google lays out its two-pronged attack methods on the company blog to keep deepfakes from appearing in searches.

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However, its been notoriously difficult to get something taken down.

Google has updated the system to request that the content be reduced.

And Google will take down any duplicate posts.

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The first step is creating a ranking that wont surface much explicit content.

Finally, Google made a list and checked it twice.

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