America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here

Source: The Verge

A law requiring social networks to quickly remove sexual deepfakes and other nonconsensual imagery is now fully in force. 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 (NCII). The law immediately criminalized distributing NCII, whether in the form of real or AI‑generated material, something many states at least partially do already. Its namesake takedown provision is more sweeping. Taking effect a year after the law’s passage—on May 19 2026—it requires platforms to …

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