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New York Federal Charges Under Take It Down Act for AI Deepfakes

Published 21 May 2026

Federal prosecutors in New York have charged two men with using artificial intelligence to create and distribute explicit deepfake videos and images of women, marking one of the earliest applications of a new federal law targeting such content.

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