Melania Trump to use first public remarks of this term to shine a light on victims of deepfake revenge porn
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First lady Melania Trump is expected to speak publicly Monday, for the first time since her husband returned to office, highlighting her support for a bill aimed at protecting Americans from deepfake and revenge pornography.
First lady Melania Trump is expected to speak publicly Monday, for the first time since her husband returned to office, highlighting her support for a bill aimed at protecting Americans from deepfake and revenge pornography. Trump will hold a roundtable discussion Monday on Capitol Hill, according to the office of the first lady, to shine a light on the “TAKE IT DOWN” Act, which boosts protections for victims of non-consensual sharing of sexual images, including content generated by artificial intelligence, also known as deepfake porn. In the past year, targets of AI-generated, non-consensual pornographic images have ranged from prominent women such as Taylor Swift and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to high school girls. The bill, introduced by Republican Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, “would criminalize the publication of non-consensual intimate imagery (NCII), including AI-generated NCII (or ‘deepfake pornography’), and require social media and similar websites to have in place procedures to remove such content upon notification from a victim,” according to Cruz’s office. It passed the Senate with bipartisan support during the last session of Congress but did not pass the House. Cruz and a bipartisan group of lawmakers, including Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota and Rep. Madeleine Dean of Pennsylvania, are reintroducing the bill, and the first lady is now lending her support to the effort. During President Donald Trump’s first term, Melania Trump unveiled her “Be Best” platform, which included a focus on online safety. She indicated in an interview shortly before the November election that she was interested in reinvigorating those efforts, and suggested she could take on “new issues.”
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