The Conservative government announced Thursday that it will seek to amend the Online Safety Bill and make it an offence to share “manufactured intimate images” without a subject’s consent, with successful prosecutions potentially resulting in jail time. (The Logic)

Talkign point: The legislation, currently at the report stage in the House of Commons, would impose new requirements on platforms that host user-generated content, search engines and porn sites, including taking down child sexual exploitation and messaging promoting terrorism. The Conservatives have swung back and forth on the bill amid leadership chaos. The amended version would make the U.K. an early mover in adding deepfakes to the list of types of illegal content; a U.S. bill with a similar effect failed to pass in December 2018. Canada’s proposed online harms approach covers non-consensual sharing of intimate images, but does not specifically address manufactured or manipulated ones.