president Donald Trump It is set to sign Please defeat it – A bill to punish internet abuse that includes unconsensual and explicit images.
The president is due to sign the bill from the White House on Monday afternoon, with first lady joining Melania TrumpShe has defended the issue since her husband took office.
Please defeat it This is a bill introduced in the Senate by the Senate. Ted Cruise, R-Texas, and Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn. would make a federal crime to threaten to publicly or publicly publicly uninherited intimate images, including “digital counterfeiting” created by artificial intelligence. The bill passed the Senate unanimously in February and died in the House of Representatives in April with a vote of 409-2.
The law requires a prison penalty of up to three years to share unconsensual intimate images involving minors (real or AI-generated) and share two years’ prisons for images involving adults. It also requires a prison penalty of up to two and a half years for threat crimes involving minors, and a year and a year and a prison penalty for threats involving adults.
First Lady Melania Trump will speak on Capitol Hill on March 3, 2025 to advocate passing the Takedown Act. (Fox News)
The bill requires social media companies such as Snapchat, Tiktok, Instagram and similar platforms to introduce procedures to remove such content within 48 hours from victims.
AI-generated images What is known as “deepfakes” often involves editing videos and photos and using artificial intelligence to make you look like someone else. After Reddit users posted realistic looking porn for celebrities to the platform, Deepfakes hit the public radar in 2017, opening Floodgates to users using AI, and the following year saw the images being more convincing and widely shared.
Now, almost every US state has laws that protect people from unconsensual, intimate image violations, but the laws vary depending on the classification of crime and punishment.
In March, the First Lady spoke for the first time on Capitol Hill since returning to the White House to attend a roundtable discussion with lawmakers and victims of revenge porn and AI-generated deepfakes.
The first lady invited 15-year-old Ellistonberry. Ellistonbury used AI for her high school peers to create unconsensual images of her and spread them on social media.
US First Lady Melania Trump speaks during a roundtable discussion on “Takedown Act” in Washington, DC on March 3, 2025, in Mike Mansfield Room at the Capitol. (Getty Images)
“It’s heartbreaking to see young teens, especially girls, tackle the overwhelming challenges posed by malicious online content like deepfakes,” Trump said. “This toxic environment can be extremely damaging and their well-being must be prioritized by equipping them with the support and tools they need to navigate this hostile digital landscape.
Berry, who is from Texas, said she was only 14 when she realized in 2023. “Previous Instagram photos with my face made from a naked body and AI have been circulating on social media.
“Fear, shock, disgust were just a few of the many emotions I felt,” Berry said. “I felt responsible, started blaming myself, and felt embarrassed to tell my parents. I had nothing wrong with it. When I went to school, I was afraid that someone or someone else’s reaction would be able to replicate these photos.”
“We need to explain big skills to take action,” the young woman continued. “I’ve come here to not only promote this bill, but also to fight for the freedom of many survivors, millions of people, men, women, teenagers and children.
Another young girl, Francesca Mani of New Jersey, said she was only 14 when she and other peers found images of deepfakes online.
“Teens may not know all the laws, but they know something is wrong,” Mani said. “Schools need to take immediate and serious actions to ensure that AI exploitation, harassment and deepfake abuse have real consequences.”
The first lady of US Melania Trump will respond to a speech by US President Donald Trump at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on March 4, 2025. March 4th, 2025.
The First Lady invited the young woman as a special guest for Trump’s first speech to the Congressional joint session in March.
Sharing unconsensual, AI-generated explicit images on social media and the internet has not affected young girls either. This is because young boys and adults face similar crimes. A woman named Breeze Liu told Roundtable that she made tireless efforts to remove images produced by Ai, who landed on a porn site in 2020 when she was 24 years old.
And South Carolina Republican Rep. Brandon Guffy joined the group of lawmakers and first lady groups in March to share how his 17-year-old son committed suicide after being caught up in a sextration scam in 2022.
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“I lost my eldest son, Gavin Guffy, to suicide,” he shared. “We quickly learned that he was being forced online. People pretending to be a young woman from another university demanded that they share images back and forth, and as soon as he shared those images, he took his life.
Meanwhile, during the first Trump administration, Melania Trump hosted a virtual roundtable on Foster Care as part of her “Be Best” initiative, focusing on strengthening the child welfare system. The “Be Best” initiative also focuses on online safety.
“As a first lady, my commitment to the ‘Be Best’ initiative underscores the importance of online safety,” she said. “In an age where digital interaction is essential to everyday life, protecting children from despicable and harmful online behavior is essential.”
The First Lady in March said the bill “represents a powerful step towards justice, healing and unity.”
