Dingell, Colleagues Reintroduce Bipartisan TAKE IT DOWN Act to Protect Victims of Non-Consensual Intimate Imagery
January 22, 2025
Today, Congresswoman Debbie Dingell (MI-06) joined Reps. María Elvira Salazar (R-FL), Madeleine Dean (D-PA), Vern Buchanan (R-FL), August Pfluger (R-TX), and Stacey Plaskett (D-VI) to reintroduce the Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks (TAKE IT DOWN) Act for the 119th Congress. Senators Ted Cruz (D-TX) and Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) introduced the Senate version of the bill.
The TAKE IT DOWN Act protects victims of real and deepfake ‘revenge pornography' by criminalizing the publication of these harmful images, in addition to requiring websites to quickly remove them. The rising popularity of AI requires decisive federal legal protections that will empower victims of these heinous crimes, most of whom are women and girls.
