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Boston GlobeThursday, 9 April 2026

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Schools lag on fighting deepfake porn

Few have policies despite complaints from victims

How they framed it

The paper frames this as an institutional failure to keep pace with technology, highlighting a gap between state laws and local school administrative action.

Context

As AI image-generation tools become widely accessible to teenagers, schools are facing a surge in digitally fabricated explicit images of students, but many lack the disciplinary frameworks to address it effectively.

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Few have policies despite complaints

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