TAKE IT DOWN Act

This bill makes it a federal crime to share sexually explicit images of a person without their consent, and forces online platforms to take such images down quickly. It amends the Communications Act to criminalize knowingly publishing, over an online service, an intimate image of an identifiable person who did not consent, covering both real photographs and AI-generated fakes the bill calls digital forgeries. Publishing such an image of an adult can bring up to two years in prison, and of a minor up to three; threatening to publish one is also a crime. Separately, within one year of enactment, every covered platform must build a reporting process, and once someone reports a nonconsensual image of themselves in good faith, the platform must remove it within 48 hours and make reasonable efforts to find and remove identical copies. Platforms are shielded from liability for removing content in good faith even if it later proves lawful. The Federal Trade Commission enforces the takedown duty, treating a failure to comply as an unfair or deceptive practice. Covered platforms are public sites and apps that mainly host user-generated content or that regularly host such images; broadband providers and email are excluded.

At least 45 organizations named this measure in a lobbying filing. A floor, not a total: they were counted by the client name on 186 quarterly reports filed by 16 lobbying firms and by 29 organizations lobbying for themselves in 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. An organization that lobbied this measure without naming it is not counted here.

12 of those filings did not cite this bill by number. They named a short title it shares with its House companion, HR 633, so the reference belongs to the pair rather than to one chamber’s vehicle.

The filings record that lobbying was reported on the measure. The form has no per-bill dollar figure and no field for a position, so nothing here says how much was spent or which side an organization took.

5 of them, in no ranking: Epic Games, Inc.; Internet Works; Snap Inc.; Cornerstone Government Affairs Obo National Hockey League; National Hockey League. Listed as filed, in the order the filings were read, and 40 others are not shown. These are not the largest, the earliest or the most active: we keep five names per measure, and the filings give no ranking.

From the LD-2 quarterly lobbying filings published at lda.gov by the Senate Office of Public Records. Read for 2025 Q1, 2025 Q2, 2025 Q3, 2025 Q4, 2026 Q1, 2026 Q2 and 2026 Q3. Our copy holds 24 fewer filings for 2025 Q1, 39 fewer filings for 2025 Q2, 42 fewer filings for 2025 Q3, 33 fewer filings for 2025 Q4, 28 fewer filings for 2026 Q1, 48 fewer filings for 2026 Q2 and 218 fewer filings for 2026 Q3 than the Senate's register counts, so those quarters are the filings we could read rather than every one filed. 2026 Q4 is still inside its filing window, so that quarter is only the filings posted so far.