Welcome. It is verdict with Senator Ted Cruz, Ben Ferguson with you. And Senator, we have got some really

important legislation that it needs to be talked about, that you're working on in a bipartisan way.

Give people a little bit of update on that. And also, we've got some other breaking news we're going to deal with as well.

Well, that's right. So this week, I launched major bipartisan legislation, focused on protecting

kids online. And as you know, that's been a huge focus of mine for years. But in particular,

this is focused on AI, artificial intelligence and deep fake technology

that is being used more and more to exploit children, and in particular to create explicit

images of teenagers, of women, and to put it publicly, taking their face and melding it

with explicit sexual images, either

pictures or videos, and making the public.

And the victims that are happening are growing and growing exponentially.

And so I've introduced legislation, bipartisan legislation, number one, to make it a crime,

to publish deep fake images, intimate images of an individual

without their consent.

But number two, and this is really the most important part of the legislation, to mandate

that big tech companies take down those images at the request of the victim.

The name of this bill is the

Take It Down Act, because right now, when you have a victim and we have victims in Texas, we have

teenage girls, and many of these deep fakes target teenage girls, these images get posted,

their friends at school see them and and the big tech platforms

will not take down the images they leave them up and so this legislation would create a legal

and statutory right for a victim for a victim's parents to say take this garbage down it's not

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