There's a 50-year-old woman named Raffaela Spone from Chalfont, Pennsylvania. Her daughter is a cheerleader on a competing travel team called the Victory Vipers. Raffaela came up with a plan to get her daughter's rivals off the team. She made DEEPFAKE PHOTOS and VIDEOS that made it look like those girls were drinking, vaping, and NAKED!
She anonymously sent those pictures to the team's coach, and also to the girls themselves. These posts urged them to kill themselves too. Her daughter apparently had NO idea her mom came up with such a scheme to help her team win.
The coaches and parents called the police, and they figured out the pictures and videos were deepfakes. Then they traced the photos back to Raffaela!
She was arrested last week for cyber harassment of a child and other charges.