Senate lawmakers unanimously approved the bipartisan Take It Down Act that would force social media companies to act quickly. Removing sexually explicit deepfakespreventing them from publishing and criminalizing the act.
For victims of deep porn like 15-year-old Elliston Perry, this action is long overdue.
The Texas high school student is working with lawmakers to pass a bill to protect victims like her. It's inspired by her own story from last year, when she discovered fake nude photos of herself spread across social media in a sinister cyber scheme that turned her life upside down.
“One of my classmates took an innocent photo from my Instagram account and put it in the editing tool that stripped me naked and sent it to my entire school,” she recalled Thursday on “Fox & Friends.”
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Texas teen Ellison Perry talks about the Take It Down Act, which would require social media companies to restrict deep porn on their platforms. (Fox News/Screengrab)
“A lot of my friends were targeted as well. A lot of my classmates were able to recognize the original photo, and because it happened to a lot of girls in my class, you could (tell) that this was fake, and we were able to go to school and hopefully try to do something.” “about that.”
It took nine months – and help Texas Senator Ted Cruz – To remove images.
“If you tweet right now, today, and sing a song from The Lion King, social media will take that down within hours because you can't send copyrighted material,” Cruz said. Fox 4 Dallas Fort Worth.
Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, attends a Senate Judiciary Committee meeting at the Hart Building on Thursday, May 11, 2023. Cruz helped Perry remove deepfakes from the web. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
“So each of these tech companies has an office dedicated to doing that (removing deepfakes). And so what we're doing is saying that if someone falls victim to photos or videos or any other fake lie that's coming after them, they should have the right “In removing this abuse offline.”
Bipartisan effort led by that it. Amy Klobuchara Democrat from Minnesota, Cruz passed unanimously in the Senate and now heads to the House.
Cruz calls on the House of Representatives to take a decision on the bill before the end of the month. Perry hopes to see lawmakers pass this before Christmas.
“We urge the House of Representatives to pass this bill in order to protect many people. The future generation is in danger. That's what we're aiming for, and there are a lot of people and a lot of victims who don't have the ability to go and tell their story, so that's what we're aiming for. “We are pushing to get this bill passed as soon as possible just to protect people,” she said.
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