Is 48 hour removal duty for covered platforms legally binding?

Q: Is 48 hour removal duty for covered platforms legally binding?

48 hour removal duty for covered platforms is binding in the United States. Binding law. It applies to everyone in scope, whether or not anyone points at it. A covered platform must remove a non consensual intimate depiction, including an AI generated one, within 48 hours of a valid request, and make reasonable efforts to remove copies. Platform duties became operative 19 May 2026, enforced by the FTC.

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48 hour removal duty for covered platforms

Is this legally binding?

Binding. Binding law. It applies to everyone in scope, whether or not anyone points at it.

A covered platform must remove a non consensual intimate depiction, including an AI generated one, within 48 hours of a valid request, and make reasonable efforts to remove copies. Platform duties became operative 19 May 2026, enforced by the FTC.

congress.govS. 146, platform notice and removal processShow it on the map

What this connects to

2 relations. Official relations are the ones the source documents state; anything marked GAGE analysis is our reading, not an agency's.

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InstrumentTAKE IT DOWN Act (Pub. L. 119-12)Binding

Applies to1

AgencyFederal Trade Commission (FTC)Binding
FTC enforces the platform duty

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