The Deepfake Liability Act amends federal law to hold online platforms more accountable for hosting deepfakes and cyberstalking content while expanding protections against nonconsensual intimate imagery. The bill modifies Section 230 of the Communications Act—which currently shields platforms from liability for user-generated content—by requiring platforms to implement reasonable safeguards against deepfakes, cyberstalking, and intimate privacy violations, including processes to prevent such content, respond to removal requests, and preserve data for legal proceedings. The legislation also strengthens the existing TAKE IT DOWN Act by expanding the definition of prohibited content to include sexually explicit deepfakes and cyberstalking, reducing exceptions to those prohibitions, and requiring platforms to remove qualifying content within 48 hours of receiving a valid removal request from affected individuals. Platforms that remove such content in good faith are protected from liability. The Federal Trade Commission must issue implementing regulations within 180 days, and the law applies to all covered platforms and interactive computer services beginning upon enactment.
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