Profiting From Exploitation: How We Found the Man Behind Two Deepfake Porn Sites

Content warning: This article contains descriptions of non-consensual sexual imagery. Depending on which of his social media profiles you were looking at, Mark Resan was either a marketing lead at Google or working for a dental implant company, a human resources company and a business software firm – all at the same time. Facebook photos showed Resan vacationing in Bali (left) and relaxing at luxury hotels in Dubai (right).

Blurring by Bellingcat But a Bellingcat investigation has found that the Hungarian national is the key figure behind, and the likely owner of, at least two deepfake porn websites – RefacePorn and DeepfakePorn – that until recently were selling paid subscriptions. There is no question about the nature of these websites. RefacePorn’s landing page shows an explicit video o