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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Introduces Legislation to Combat Deepfake Pornography
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leads the DEFIANCE Act of 2024 which would fight nonconsensual, sexually-explicit “deepfake” images and videos
Ocasio-Cortez reveals to Rolling Stone that she will be leading the House companion of the Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits (DEFIANCE) Act of 2024 with a bipartisan group of representatives. The legislation amends the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) so that people can sue those who produce, distribute, or receive the deepfake pornography, if they “knew or recklessly disregarded” the victim did not consent to those images. She says there is an “urgency of the moment because folks have waited too long to set the groundwork for this,” so we need to contend with it and come to answers about how to regulate deepfake technology in a way to protect victims.
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