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America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here

The Verge • 2026-05-19T11:32

America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here

A law requiring social networks to quickly remove sexual deepfakes and other nonconsensual imagery is now fully in force. But experts warn the policy could do little to help victims - and at worst could facilitate censorship online. Last May, President Donald Trump signed the Take It Down Act, a law addressing nonconsensual intimate imagery […]

What happened?

A law requiring social networks to quickly remove sexual deepfakes and other nonconsensual imagery is now fully in force. But experts warn the policy could do little to help victims - and at worst could facilitate censorship online. Last May, President Donald Trump signed the Take It Down Act, a law addressing nonconsensual intimate imagery […]

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A law requiring social networks to quickly remove sexual deepfakes and other nonconsensual imagery is now fully in force.

But experts warn the policy could do little to help victims - and at worst could facilitate censorship online.

Last May, President Donald Trump signed the Take It Down Act, a law addressing nonconsensual intimate imagery […]

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https://www.theverge.com/policy/933518/take-it-down-act-notice-removal-social-media-deepfake