Uploaded May 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
MrDeepFakes billed itself as the “largest and most user-friendly” platform for celebrity deepfake pornography. The website, which was visited millions of times every month, hosted almost 70,000 explicit and sometimes violent videos, which had collectively been viewed more than 2.2 billion times.
But who are the people behind the platform? This is how we found the identity of one of the key administrators behind the Notorious Deepfake Porn Site...
This investigation was conducted in partnership with Tjekdet , @Politikentv and @CBCNews (the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).
Read our full reporting at bellingcat.com/news/2025/05/07/canadian-pharmacist-linked-to-worlds-most-notorious-deepfake-porn-site/?utm_source=YouTube
00:00 - 00:45 Introduction to MrDeepFakes
00:45 - 01:11 Introduction to our investigation
01:12 - 02:57 The deepfake setup
02:58 - 03:22 How did MrDeepFakes administrators stay hidden?
03:23 - 04:56 We start to investigate MrDeepFakes
04:57 - 07:30 MrDeepFakes origins
07:31 - 07:54 The deepfake videos made by Do
07:55 - 09:13 Other media findings on MrDeepFakes
09:14 - 10:16 Meet David Do
10:17 - 10:38 Legislation to protect victims
10:39- 11:26 Contacting David Do
MrDeepFakes billed itself as the “largest and most user-friendly” platform for celebrity deepfake pornography. The website, which was visited millions of times every month, hosted almost 70,000 explicit and sometimes violent videos, which had collectively been viewed more than 2.2 billion times.
But who are the people behind the platform? This is how we found the identity of one of the key administrators behind the Notorious Deepfake Porn Site...
This investigation was conducted in partnership with Tjekdet , @Politikentv and @CBCNews (the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation).
Read our full reporting at bellingcat.com/news/2025/05/07/canadian-pharmacist-linked-to-worlds-most-notorious-deepfake-porn-site/?utm_source=YouTube
00:00 - 00:45 Introduction to MrDeepFakes
00:45 - 01:11 Introduction to our investigation
01:12 - 02:57 The deepfake setup
02:58 - 03:22 How did MrDeepFakes administrators stay hidden?
03:23 - 04:56 We start to investigate MrDeepFakes
04:57 - 07:30 MrDeepFakes origins
07:31 - 07:54 The deepfake videos made by Do
07:55 - 09:13 Other media findings on MrDeepFakes
09:14 - 10:16 Meet David Do
10:17 - 10:38 Legislation to protect victims
10:39- 11:26 Contacting David Do
![Call Between Alexey Navalny and FSB Officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev [English Subtitles]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/gwvA49ZXnf8/mqdefault.jpg "Call Between Alexey Navalny and FSB Officer Konstantin Kudryavtsev [English Subtitles]
Full call between Navalny and one of the FSB officers in the team to trail and eventually poison him, Konstantin Kudryavtsev.
Before the publication of our recent joint investigation into the FSB officers involved in the operation to poison him in Tomsk, Navalny decided to call two members of the poison squad, Mikhail Shvets and Konstantin Kudryavtsev, by impersonating a senior security official. To both of these officers, Navalny introduced himself as a fictional character: Maxim Ustinov, an “aide to [Chairman of Russia’s Security Council] Nikolai Patrushev”. The premise of the call was that Navalny - playing the role of “Maxim Ustinov”, would ask the officers for an oral report on the reasons for the failure of the Navalny poisoning operation.
Over forty minutes, Kudryavtsev answered questions from Navalny whose voice he didnt recognize regarding the failed operation.")
