Take It Down Act mandates social media platforms remove deepfake porn within 48 hours

Searching...

The new federal law criminalizes non-consensual intimate imagery and forces platforms to build takedown systems by May 2026, with implications that stretch into Web3 and decentralized protocols.

President Trump signed the TAKE IT DOWN Act into law on May 19, 2025, turning a bipartisan piece of legislation into the first federal statute specifically targeting deepfake pornography and non-consensual intimate imagery. The law passed Congress with near-unanimous support, a rare feat for any bill, let alone one regulating online content.

Any platform hosting user-generated content now has to build a notice-and-takedown system that removes flagged material within 48 hours. They have exactly one year, until May 19, 2026, to get those systems operational. Fail to comply, and the Federal Trade Commission comes knocking.

Take It Down Act mandates social media platforms remove deepfake porn within 48 hours

Other newsrooms on this story

Related reading

How the Take It Down Act tackles nonconsensual deepfake porn -- and how it…

Other newsrooms on this story

Related reading

How the Take It Down Act tackles nonconsensual deepfake porn -- and how it…

America’s dangerous, messy deepfakes crackdown is here

FTC's Strict Anti-Deepfake Rule Kicks in Today. Here's What That Means for Grok

You can now legally request revenge and deepfake porn to be taken down. Here’s…

A new government website lets you report platforms that fail to remove…

Trump Signs Controversial Law Targeting Nonconsensual Sexual Content