President Donald Trump has signed the Take It Down Act, which seeks to enact stricter penalties for the distribution of non-consensual intimate imagery, sometimes called ‘revenge porn’ online.

Trump signed the Take it Down Act into law May 19, 2025. What to know about the “revenge porn” law and first lady Melania Trump, who advocated for it

President Trump signed the "Take It Down Act" on May 19, 2025, empowering US schools to tackle the rising issue of AI-generated deepfakes and non-consensual intimate imagery. The law mandates social media platforms to remove such content within 48 hours and criminalizes the creation and sharing of these images.

In addition to making it to illegal to share online nonconsensual, explicit images -- real or computer-generated -- the law also requires tech platforms to remove such images within 48 hours of being notified about them, CNN reported. The Tribune, now ...

The president, lacking self-awareness, condemned online harassment at the signing of a bill championed by first lady Melania Trump.