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Senate Passes Bill Allowing Victims to Sue Over Deepfake Porn Videos

The bill now goes to the House, where its fate is uncertain.
Senate Passes Bill Allowing Victims to Sue Over Deepfake Porn Videos
The U.S. Capitol building in Washington on Jan. 8, 2026. Madalina Kilroy/The Epoch Times
Jackson Richman
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WASHINGTON—The Senate unanimously passed a bill on Jan. 13 allowing victims to sue producers and distributors of deepfake porn videos.

The Disrupt Explicit Forged Images and Non-Consensual Edits Act, or DEFIANCE Act, now goes to the House, where its fate is uncertain.
Jackson Richman
Jackson Richman
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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