Man who reposted fake photo of Puma Shen granted deferred prosecution - Focus Taiwan

On June 7, 2026, a man surnamed Wu reposted on his Facebook page a fake photo purporting to show Taipei mayoral candidate Puma Shen with a nude woman and alleged drug paraphernalia. Prosecutors and the Ministry of Justice Investigation Bureau (MJIB) said the image had been first posted earlier in June on an X account traced to China and that analysis using tools including Reality Defender, Resemble AI, and Media Integrity AI confirmed it was a deepfake. Wu admitted he reposted the image knowing it was fake, apologized, and was granted two years of deferred prosecution conditional on attending legal-education sessions; prosecutors said a separate investigation is under way into the creation of the deepfake image.

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