The First Lady rallied support for a bill that would criminalize nonconsensual imagery and require social media platforms to take it down.

First Lady Melania Trump expressed her support for the TAKE IT DOWN Act, which targets deepfakes. Deepfakes are AI-generated videos and images. Many created are nonconsensual explicit images using someone's likeness.

The TAKE IT DOWN Act, an online safety legislation, is gaining steam in Washington, D.C., as first lady Melania Trump expressed her support Monday. The big picture: The bipartisan bill aims to bolster protections against the non-consensual dissemination of sexual images,