This Week in Tech with Jeanne Destro

Double-Edged Deepfake Dilemma

Jun 14, 2025 · 24 min · 18.3 MB
0:00-24:58

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While the new federal "Take It Down Act" that aims to protect people from the unauthorized sharing of intimate, sexually explicit images, is a really welcome and much needed weapon against revenge porn and deepfake cyberbullying; it could also be misused to supress legitimate political speech.

That's what we're talking about today, with Visiting Associate Professor of Law, Jess Miers, who has experience working for Google as a Senior Government Affairs & Public Policy Analyst, and who teaches classes on technology-related legal issues, at the University of Akron.