Enacted
TAKE IT DOWN Act
This bill makes it a federal crime to publish or threaten to publish nonconsensual intimate images or AI-generated sexual "deepfakes" online, carrying penalties of up to three years in prison, fines, and restitution for victims. Websites and mobile apps hosting user content must create a clear process to receive complaints and take down reported intimate media within 48 hours. The Federal Trade Commission is authorized to penalize online platforms that fail to comply with these takedown rules.
People affected—The text does not quantify the specific number of individuals or covered entities affected.
Fiscal magnitude—no CBO estimate published
Reach72provisional · pending reviewrigor: heuristic llm
What this bill touches.
Big-tech & platforms+58Sentencing & corrections−35Online speech+60Speech & expression+52AI & emerging tech+45
Who it helps · who it burdens.
Who it helps
- Victims of nonconsensual intimate visual depictions and digital forgeriesGains the right to submit takedown notices requiring covered platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate depictions and identical copies within 48 hours, gains federal criminal protections against unauthorized distribution and extortion threats, and receives mandatory court-ordered financial restitution upon offender conviction (Sec. 2(a)(2)(h)(2)–(8), Sec. 3(a)).
- Covered online platforms and websitesProtected from civil liability when acting in good faith to remove or disable access to content reasonably believed to be nonconsensual intimate visual depictions (Sec. 3(a)(4)).
Who it burdens
- Covered online platforms and websitesMust create and publicly post a plain-language takedown request process within one year, remove nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours of a valid notice, and make reasonable efforts to delete known copies, facing Federal Trade Commission enforcement for noncompliance (Sec. 3(a)(1)–(3), Sec. 3(b)).
- Individuals who knowingly publish or threaten to publish nonconsensual intimate depictions or digital forgeriesSubject to federal criminal prosecution, fines, up to 3 years imprisonment, mandatory restitution payments to victims, and forfeiture of distributed materials, proceeds, and personal property used in the offense (Sec. 2(a)(2)(h)(4), (6)–(8)).
- Federal Trade CommissionGranted authority to enforce platform notice-and-takedown requirements as unfair or deceptive trade practices, including expanding its jurisdictional enforcement scope to cover nonprofit online entities (Sec. 3(b)).