Mateusz Łabuz co-authored the OpEd titled “What is Europe doing about deepfake porn? Not enough”. The OpEd was published by the EUObserver.

Together with Maria Pawelec from the University of Tubingen, Mateusz argues that introducing the Take It Down Act in the US (a bipartisan federal law that mandates swift removal of non-consensual sexualising deepfakes, and grants victims stronger legal protection) should be a wake-up call for the European Union. The rise of such content not only violates personal rights. It is a silent epidemic striking at the foundations of our democracy.

Although the EU passed the Directive on combating violence against women and domestic violence which, inter alia, mandates the member states to criminalise the creation and distribution of non-consensual sexualising deepfakes by June 2027, member states must take action before that deadline, and provisions must be backed up by political will and concrete enforcement.

You can read the OpEd here.

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