diff --git a/app/controllers/api/v2/image_proxy_controller.rb b/app/controllers/api/v2/image_proxy_controller.rb
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..c6d56bda
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/controllers/api/v2/image_proxy_controller.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+require 'base64'
+require 'net/http'
+
+class Api::V2::ImageProxyController < EmptyController
+  def get
+    if params[:trends_url].nil?
+      raise GabSocial::NotPermittedError
+    else
+      url = URI.parse(params[:trends_url])
+      image = Net::HTTP.get_response(url)
+      send_data image.body, type: image.content_type, disposition: 'inline'
+    end
+  end
+end
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/app/javascript/gabsocial/reducers/news.js b/app/javascript/gabsocial/reducers/news.js
index 184f769b..688ed815 100644
--- a/app/javascript/gabsocial/reducers/news.js
+++ b/app/javascript/gabsocial/reducers/news.js
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ const normalizeTrendsItem = (item) => {
     title: `${item.pagePreview.title}`.trim(),
     description: `${item.pagePreview.description}`.trim(),
     publish_date: item.pubDate,
-    image: Array.isArray(item.pagePreview.images) ? item.pagePreview.images[0] : null, // : todo : proxy
+    image: Array.isArray(item.pagePreview.images) ? `/api/v2/image_proxy?trends_url=${item.pagePreview.images[0]}` : null,
     feed_title: item.feed.title,
     feed_slug: item.feed.slug,
     feed_base_url: `${item.feed.url}`.replace('www.', '').replace('https://', '').replace('http://', '').replace('/', ''),
diff --git a/config/routes.rb b/config/routes.rb
index 94bf6cc9..c9a34830 100644
--- a/config/routes.rb
+++ b/config/routes.rb
@@ -468,6 +468,7 @@ Rails.application.routes.draw do
 
     namespace :v2 do
       get '/search', to: 'search#index', as: :search
+      get '/image_proxy', to: 'image_proxy#get'
     end
 
     namespace :web do