Progressive New York congresswoman describes resurfacing of trauma when seeing explicit materials with her image transposed on to them

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez has described her horror at discovering – midway through a discussion with aides during a car journey in February – that she had been transposed into a “deepfake porn” simulation generated by artificial intelligence and posted on X.

In an interview with Rolling Stone , the progressive congresswoman said the experience of coming up close to a depiction of herself performing a sex act had shown her that being deepfaked was “not as imaginary as people want to make it seem”.

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Pramila Jayapal and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez accuse president of behaving like Trump, saying ‘we must not buckle on our principles’

Progressive lawmakers and advocates on Thursday pushed back strongly against Joe Biden amid reports that the White House is weighing unilateral action to sharply restrict access to claim asylum at the US-Mexico border – comparing the move to the hardline strategies of Donald Trump when he was president.

The leading progressive congressional representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Pramila Jayapal criticized the US president for considering such executive action, while legislative efforts are stalled on Capitol Hill amid Republican resistance, after CNN first reported that Biden was considering the unilateral move.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez arrêtée lors d'un rassemblement pour défendre le droit à l'avortement à Washington, le 19 juillet 2022.

Correction: We made a total of 35 arrests for Crowding, Obstructing or Incommoding (DC Code § 22–1307).

That arrest number includes 17 Members of Congress.

— U.S. Capitol Police (@CapitolPolice) July 19, 2022

Multiple members of Congress, including @AOC , being arrested by Capitol Police for blocking traffic outside the Supreme Court in abortion rights demonstration: pic.twitter.com/fysQN1oBAw

— Andrew Solender (@AndrewSolender) July 19, 2022

Today I was arrested while participating in a civil disobedience action with my fellow Members of Congress outside the Supreme Court.

I will continue to do everything in my power to raise the alarm about the assault on our reproductive rights! ✊🏽 pic.twitter.com/rpFYOGBDf4

— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) July 19, 2022

Members of the U.S. House about to get arrested by Capitol Police for abortion rights demonstration that’s blocking an intersection between the Capitol Building and the Supreme Court. pic.twitter.com/GKU3KGRO0r

— Jennifer Shutt (@JenniferShutt) July 19, 2022