From Cointelegraph

May 20, 2025 02:21 am:

US President Donald Trump signed the TAKE IT DOWN Act into law, criminalizing deepfake porn and requiring websites to remove illicit images within 48 hours. First lady Melania Trump backed the bill, making it a federal crime to publish nonconsensual deepfakes with penalties ranging from fines to prison.

The bill, introduced by Senators Ted Cruz and Amy Klobuchar, aims to address the harmful use of deepfakes, with cases like the spread of deepfake-generated images of Taylor Swift prompting legislative action. Other countries, like the UK, have already made sharing deepfake pornography illegal, with a report showing the majority of online deepfakes are pornographic and target women.

Read more at Cointelegraph: Trump signs bill criminalizing nonsensenual AI deepfake porn