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Canadian tech helped U.S. strike alleged Venezuelan drug boats: report | CBC News

Eric Szeto @ericszeto.bsky.social · 3d

4/ We also spoke with former military and defence industry experts, who have familiarity with these devices — a majority concluded that it is likely Canadian surveillance tech involved in these operations.

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Eric Szeto @ericszeto.bsky.social · 3d

3/ We built on Project Ploughshares report, doing our own visual analysis comparing the US strikes with previously released videos and going through product manuals.

Canadian technology was used by the U.S. military in operations that blew up at least two alleged Venezuelan drug boats in the Caribbean in September, according to a report by Project Ploughshares.

Eric Szeto @ericszeto.bsky.social · 3d

2/ NGO Project Ploughshares, according to their report, says it was Canadian company L3Harris Wescam, which builds these devices out of Hamilton, Ontario involved in the first two strikes that killed at least 14 people last month.

Did Trump strike alleged Venezuelan drug boats with Canadian tech?

Eric Szeto @ericszeto.bsky.social · 3d

Was Canadian surveillance tech used in US military strikes against suspected cartel members in the Caribbean sea?

Our latest:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRvN...

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Dutch politicians join calls to extradite Canadian behind notorious AI porn site | CBC News

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Beau Donelly @beaudonelly.bsky.social · Aug 13

Pressure mounting on deepfake pornographer David Do www.cbc.ca/news/canada/... by @ericszeto.bsky.social

Politicians from a second European country are calling for the extradition of the Canadian man behind a notorious, pornographic website which featured deepfake images and videos of celebrities, politi...

Tracking Canada’s fascist fight clubs

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Eric Szeto @ericszeto.bsky.social · Jul 19

Our team spent months analyzing hundreds of images and videos, using clues in their posts to identify who some of these people are, geolocate where exactly they've been training, then verifying our findings in person (surveilling members, going to each location).

www.cbc.ca/newsinteract...

CBC’s visual investigations team reveals where some of Canada’s white nationalist 'active clubs' gather to prepare for violence.

Exposing fascist fight clubs training for 'race war' in Canada

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Eric Szeto @ericszeto.bsky.social · Jul 19

Fascist fight clubs, known as 'active clubs' have deep connections to terrorist entities and violent white supremacists, taking great care to conceal their identities and locations as they train and prepare for an eventual 'race-war.'

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c66x...

Tracking Canada’s fascist fight clubs

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Brigitte Noël @brigitte.bsky.social · Jul 18

Incredible investigation by colleagues @ericszeto.bsky.social Ivan Angelovski, Christian Paas-Lang, @grantrants.bsky.social and @jordanpearson.lol www.cbc.ca/newsinteract... Tracking Canada’s fascist fight clubs

CBC’s visual investigations team reveals where some of Canada’s white nationalist 'active clubs' gather to prepare for violence.

Worse than fentanyl: How smugglers get a new, deadly drug into Canada

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Eric Szeto @ericszeto.bsky.social · Jun 23

We tracked how a synthetic opioid 40x more powerful than fentanyl is smuggled into Canada.

With open-source support from investigators at @bellingcat.com we found hundreds of ads for nitazenes posted online.

Within minutes of responding to the ads, we were talking to criminals.

tiny.cc/n6rn001

Danish MP calls for extradition of Canadian behind notorious AI porn site | CBC News

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Beau Donelly @beaudonelly.bsky.social · May 22

Danish MP calls for extradition of Canadian man linked to notorious AI porn site after joint investigation by @bellingcat.com @tjekdet.dk @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation into MrDeepFakes

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

A Danish MP is calling for the extradition of the Canadian pharmacist behind a notorious porn site that hosted deepfake images of celebrities, politicians, social media influencers and others, includi...

Udadtil lever han et stilfærdigt liv i forstaden. Nu kan vi afsløre identiteten på manden bag verdens største site for deepfake porno

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Eric Szeto @ericszeto.bsky.social · May 9

Politiken:
politiken.dk/kultur/medie...

Han er en 36-årig farmaceut, der tilsyneladende lever et stilfærdigt og respektabelt liv i forstæderne. Han har et vellønnet job på et hospital, er universitetsuddannet og kører i en Tesla. Men han ha...

politiken.dk

Eric Szeto @ericszeto.bsky.social · May 9

Tjekdet:
www.tjekdet.dk/indsigt/her-...

Her er manden bag verdens største hjemmeside for deepfake-porno

Han har i flere år haft sin daglige gang på et hospital tæt ved den canadiske storby, Toronto. Som farmaceut hjælper han hospitalets patienter med behandling og sikrer, at den ordinerede medicin indta...

www.tjekdet.dk

Unmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site - bellingcat

Eric Szeto @ericszeto.bsky.social · May 9

Bellingcat:
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...

Double life: open source investigation reveals Canadian hospital pharmacist's links to MrDeepFakes, the most notorious deepfake porn website in the world.

www.bellingcat.com

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Eric Szeto @ericszeto.bsky.social · May 9

Digital piece:

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

He's the key person behind the most notorious deepfake porn site in the world. And he's Canadian | CBC News

A joint international investigation by CBC News, Bellingcat and Danish outlets Politiken and Tjekdet has linked a Canadian pharmacist to one of the biggest website in the world for non-consensual, AI-...

Exposing the AI porn kingpin with a double life: Mr. DeepFakes

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Eric Szeto @ericszeto.bsky.social · May 9

After tracking him down in person, and informing him that we were going to name him in the investigation — the website shutdown permanently.

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Eric Szeto @ericszeto.bsky.social · May 9

CBC's visual investigation unit, in partnership with @bellingcat.com, @tjekdet.dk , and @politiken.dk revealed for the first time who the key person behind it is.

A hospital pharmacist from Canada — David Do.

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Eric Szeto @ericszeto.bsky.social · May 9

For years people have been trying to figure out who was behind the biggest AI porn site in the world — MrDeepFakes. At its peak, it had almost 70,000 non-consensual explicit deepfake porn videos, featuring celebrities, and regular people

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Eric Szeto @ericszeto.bsky.social · May 9

Latest: Exposing the AI porn kingpin with a double life.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=rOf5...

Unmasking MrDeepFakes: Canadian Pharmacist Linked to World’s Most Notorious Deepfake Porn Site - bellingcat

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Bellingcat @bellingcat.com · May 7

Exclusive: Bellingcat in partnership with @tjekdet.dk , @politiken.dk and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) can reveal the identity of a key administrator behind MrDeepFakes, one of the world’s largest providers of non-consensual deepfake pornography. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/05...

Double life: open source investigation reveals Canadian hospital pharmacist's links to MrDeepFakes, the most notorious deepfake porn website in the world.

www.bellingcat.com

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ivanangelovski.bsky.social @ivanangelovski.bsky.social · May 9

INVESTIGATION: With Bellingcat, Politiken, and Tjekdet, our team identified the person behind MrDeepFakes—the largest non-consensual deepfake porn site that shut down after our reporting.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

He's the key person behind the most notorious deepfake porn site in the world. And he's Canadian | CBC News

A joint international investigation by CBC News, Bellingcat and Danish outlets Politiken and Tjekdet has linked a Canadian pharmacist to one of the biggest website in the world for non-consensual, AI-...

The notorious AI porn kingpin with a double life

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · May 9

The story of how we exposed the real identity of Mr DeepFakes
youtu.be/rOf5jF_H6yQ?...

He's the key person behind the most notorious deepfake porn site in the world. And he's Canadian | CBC News

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Eric Szeto @ericszeto.bsky.social · May 9

CBC's visual investigation unit, in partnership w/ @Bellingcat, @TjekDet and @Politiken revealed a key person behind it is a hospital pharmacist from Canada

David Do

After tracking him down, and informing him that we were going to name him in the investigation — the website shutdown permanently

A joint international investigation by CBC News, Bellingcat and Danish outlets Politiken and Tjekdet has linked a Canadian pharmacist to one of the biggest website in the world for non-consensual, AI-...

Liberals and Conservatives said their rallies drew thousands. We decided to count

Eric Szeto @ericszeto.bsky.social · Apr 12

Digital piece: www.cbc.ca/amp/1.7507222

Liberals and Conservatives said their rallies drew thousands. We decided to count

Eric Szeto @ericszeto.bsky.social · Apr 12

Latest: Liberals and Conservatives said their rallies drew thousands. We decided to count

youtu.be/_ZaMEh7YAHY?...