Dear John,
President Donald J. Trump just signed the first FPA-backed bill of his second term, the Take It Down Act!
Last week we wrote to you with the great news that Congress passed the Take It Down Act, which protects people from becoming victims of non-consensual sharing of sexually explicit images and AI-generated and “deepfake” pornography.
The bill also provides strong protections against the recent trend of “sextortion” crimes, where young people are tricked by adults posing as people their own age to send explicit media of themselves over the internet. According to the FBI, these criminals “threaten to publish that [explicit media], or they threaten violence, to get the victim to produce more images. The shame, fear, and confusion children feel when they are caught in this cycle often prevents them from asking for help or reporting the abuse.”
