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A covered platform serves the public and either hosts user content or deals in these depictions

To require covered platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate visual depictions, and for other purposes, section 4, Sec. 4. Written by .

A covered platform serves the public and either hosts user content or deals in these depictions

The document says “means”Who acts: CongressHow: statuteSec. 4 in the PDF
What the document says

“The term ``covered platform'' means a website, online service, online application, or mobile application-- (i) that serves the public; and (ii)(I) that primarily provides a forum for user-generated content, including messages, videos, images, games, and audio files; or (II) for which it is in the regular course of trade or business of the website, online service, online application, or mobile application to publish, curate, host, or make available content of nonconsensual intimate visual depictions.”

To require covered platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate visual depictions, and for other purposes, Sec. 4

The term that carries the duties in section 3. A covered platform is a website, online service, online application or mobile application that serves the public and that either primarily provides a forum for user generated content, or publishes, curates, hosts or makes available nonconsensual intimate visual depictions in the regular course of its trade or business.

What the document actually says

“The term ``covered platform'' means a website, online service, online application, or mobile application-- (i) that serves the public; and (ii)(I) that primarily provides a forum for user-generated content, including messages, videos, images, games, and audio files; or (II) for which it is in the regular course of trade or business of the website, online service, online application, or mobile application to publish, curate, host, or make available content of nonconsensual intimate visual depictions.”

To require covered platforms to remove nonconsensual intimate visual depictions, and for other purposes, Sec. 4
That sentence, in plain words

A covered site is one open to the public. Users must post most of what is on it. Or the site must deal in these images as its trade.

What this is about

User posts can be words, video, images, games, or sound. A site of either kind is covered.

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  1. The document itself

    Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act, Public Law 119-12, sec. 4, 139 Stat. 61 (2025).
    https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/PLAW-119publ12/html/PLAW-119publ12.htm

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    “A covered platform serves the public and either hosts user content or deals in these depictions,” Tools to Address Known Exploitation by Immobilizing Technological Deepfakes on Websites and Networks Act, section 4, Sec. 4. Read the Mandate, https://readthemandate.org/tools-address-known-exploitation-by-immobilizing/proposal/sec04-covered-platform-defined/ (retrieved August 26, 2026).

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