Meta AI Nudify App Ads Target Female Politicians; Apple Pulls It

Meta ran advertisements on its platforms for an AI application capable of generating nonconsensual explicit deepfakes, including material resembling female U.S. politicians, in violation of its own policies against sexual content and nudification tools. The campaign, discovered by the Tech Transparency Project and reported on August 18 and 19, 2026, promoted an app called Kromix and was removed only after journalists contacted the company for comment.

The app, which described itself as an "AI image styler," was advertised through a series of video ads on Facebook and Instagram. One ad featured a woman closely resembling a prominent female U.S. politician standing before American flags with the caption "What if she moved?" She then winked, and the video cut to explicit content featuring a woman with the same face. A voiceover promoted the tool as having "no restrictions," claimed "all the characters are real people," and called it "the AI that men actually use." According to Meta's ad library, the campaign targeted male users exclusively with the tagline "Unleash Nextgen AI Magic."

An account created on August 3 with no followers ran 32 separate advertisements. Each ad ran for...