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The Take It Down Act, which President Donald Trump is expected to sign into law, is arguably the first new law cracking down on social media in seven years.
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May 04, 2025

How Ted Cruz is scoring wins with pared-down bills

This week, the House passed a bill to make it easier for people to remove sexually explicit deepfakes depicting them from the web if they didn’t agree to post the images.

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