Some of the biggest tech companies will now be held accountable for failing to act quickly when asked to remove non-consensual intimate images and videos. The Take It Down Act, signed by President Trump last year, went into effect on May 19. It gives victims of "revenge porn" a clear process to get non-consensual images and videos scrubbed from the internet as quickly as possible. The law criminalizes the sharing of any non-consensual, sexually explicit material involving an adult, as well as any intimate content involving a minor. It also includes any AI-generated or manipulated imagery of your likeness. Enforced by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), the government agency is not directly responsible for image removal. Instead, social media services, messaging apps, and websites must act on removal requests within 48 hours of receiving a report. Failure to do so could result in civil penalties of $53,088 per report. How to Request Nonconsensual Sexual Imagery Removal To start the process, you must ask the host to remove videos or images. You should contact the platform's support team as soon as possible. Many popular services now offer various ways to do so, including dedicated forms within support centers. Wired confirmed that LinkedIn, Reddit, Snap, and others allow you to use existing reporting tools to report this type of content. For example, on social media network X, you can report a post by pressing on the three-dot menu and selecting Report post > Private or Non-Consensual Content > Sharing a photo/video of me that I do not want on the platform. You then need to fill in another form stating who is included in the content. If a provider does not remove the content within 48 hours, you can file a complaint directly with the FTC on this website. You won't hear