Requires social media platforms to cooperate with nonprofit organization initiatives to remove nonconsensual intimate images or videos.

S4345

SENATE, No. 4345

STATE OF NEW JERSEY

222nd LEGISLATURE

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INTRODUCED MAY 28, 2026

Sponsored by:

Senator� KRISTIN M. CORRADO

District 40 (Bergen, Essex and Passaic)

SYNOPSIS

���� Requires social media platforms to cooperate with
nonprofit organization initiatives to remove nonconsensual intimate images or
videos.

CURRENT VERSION OF TEXT

���� As introduced.

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An Act
concerning social media platforms cooperating with
certain nonprofit organization initiatives and supplementing Title 56 of the
Revised Statutes.

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Be It
Enacted
by the Senate and General Assembly of
the State of New Jersey:

���� 1.� The Legislature finds and
declares that:�

���� a.���� Millions of Americans
have reported being victims of the sharing of nonconsensual intimate images or
videos, commonly referred to as �revenge porn,� with that number continuing to
grow in recent years.� Victims often struggle to find methods to remove this
type of content from social media platforms and may even face further
victimization if the images or videos resurface years later.�

���� b.��� Despite legislative
efforts to penalize the distribution of nonconsensual intimate images or
videos, the sharing of nonconsensual intimate images and videos continues to
affect many New Jersey residents, including minors, especially with the
continued and increased use of social media platforms.

���� c.���� Additionally, with the
rise of artificial intelligence-generated images, more New Jersey residents may
be affected by the sharing of nonconsensual intimate representations of
themselves through deceptive audio or visual media.

���� d.��� In addition to
legislative efforts, organizations, like StopNCII.org and the National Center
for Missing and Exploited Children�s Take It Down initiative, work to remove
all types of nonconsensual intimate images from social media platforms.

���� e.���� To date, coordination
between social media companies and these organizations is voluntary and some
social media companies do not cooperate.�
P.L. , c.
(C.
) (pending before the
Legislature as this bill) mandates that social media companies shall cooperate
with nonprofit organizations that work to remove nonconsensual images or videos
of individuals.

���� 2.��� As used in
P.L. ,
c. (C.
)
(pending before the Legislature as this bill):�

���� �Deceptive audio or visual
media� means any video recording, motion picture film, sound recording,
electronic image, photograph, or any technological representation of speech or
conduct substantially derivative thereof, that appears to a reasonable person
to realistically depict any speech or conduct of a person who did not in fact
engage in the speech or conduct, and the production of which was substantially
dependent upon technical means, rather than the ability of another person to
physically or verbally impersonate the person.

���� �Disclose� means to sell,
manufacture, give, provide, lend, trade, mail, deliver, transfer, publish,
distribute, circulate, disseminate, present, exhibit, advertise, offer, share,
or make available via the Internet or by any other means, whether for pecuniary
gain or not.

���� �Individual� means any natural
person.

���� �Intimate images or videos�
means images or videos that depict intimate parts, sexual penetration, or
sexual contact, as those terms are defined in N.J.S.2C:14-1, in any manner in
which such objects or acts are not completely and opaquely covered.

���� �Minor� means an individual
under the age of 18.

���� �Nonprofit organization� means
the same as described in section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code and
which are exempt from income tax under section 501(a) of the Internal Revenue
Code.

���� �Social media company� means a
person or entity that provides or operates a social media platform with at
least five million account holders worldwide.

���� �Social media platform� means
a public or semi-public Internet-based service or application that has account
holders in this State, which service or application: allows account holders to
construct a public or semi-public profile for the purposes of using the
platform, populate a list of other account holders with whom the account holder
shares a social connection through the platform, and post content viewable by
other account holders or users of the platform; and is designed to connect
account holders within the platform to facilitate social interactions, except
that a service or application that provides e-mail or direct messaging services
shall not be considered to meet this criterion solely based on the existence of
that functionality.� �Social media platform� shall not include a service or
application that consists primarily of news, sports, entertainment, e-commerce,
or other content that is not user-generated but is preselected by the provider
and for which any chat, comments, or interactive functionality is incidental
to, directly related to, or dependent on the provision of the content, or

�news
media� as defined in section 2 of P.L.1977, c.253 (C.2A:84A-21a).

���� �Video� means a recording of
an image or of moving images in which an individual is readily identifiable,
and which recording may be prerecorded or recorded online, or may be an online
live video transmission or a live television transmission.

���� 3.��� a.� A social media
company shall cooperate with any nonprofit organization that seeks to remove
nonconsensual intimate images or videos, including any intimate image or video
of deceptive audio or visual media, of any non-consenting individual from the social
media platform.

���� b.��� Each social media
company shall establish and implement procedures to assist nonprofit
organizations in monitoring, flagging, and requesting the removal of
nonconsensual intimate images or videos, including any intimate image or video
of deceptive audio or visual media, that are disclosed on a social media
platform.� Upon receiving a request to remove any nonconsensual intimate images
or videos, the social media company shall immediately remove the flagged
material from the social media platform until a thorough review has been
completed and the social media company has determined that the intimate images
or videos were consensual.

���� c.���� An intimate image or
video shall be considered nonconsensual when:

���� (1)�� an individual in the
intimate image or video did not give express consent for the image or video to
be taken, recorded, or disclosed; or

���� (2)�� an individual who is
depicted in an intimate image or video of deceptive audio or visual media did
not give express consent for the image or video to be created or disclosed.

���� d.��� An intimate image or
video shall be considered nonconsensual whenever the image or video is
disclosed if:

���� (1)�� an individual depicted
in an intimate image or video was a minor when the image or video was taken or
recorded; or

���� (2)�� an individual depicted
in an intimate image or video of deceptive audio or visual media was depicted
as a minor or was a minor when the image or video was created or disclosed.

���� 4.��� a.�
Any person who violates any of the
provisions of P.L. , c. (C. )
(pending before the Legislature as this bill) shall, in addition to any other
penalty provided by law, be liable to a penalty of not more than $10,000 for
the first offense and not more than $20,000 for the second and each subsequent
offense.

���� b.��� Any penalty imposed pursuant to this section may
be collected, with costs, in a summary proceeding pursuant to the �Penalty
Enforcement Law of 1999,� P.L.1999, c.274 (C.2A:58-10 et seq.).� The Superior
Court and the municipal court shall have jurisdiction to enforce the provisions
of the �Penalty Enforcement Law of 1999,� P.L.1999, c.274 (C.2A:58-10 et seq.),
in connection with P.L. , c.
(C. ) (pending before the
Legislature as this bill).

���� 5.��� This act shall take
effect immediately.

STATEMENT

���� This bill requires social
media companies to cooperate with nonprofit organization initiatives to remove
nonconsensual intimate images or videos, including any intimate image or video
of deceptive audio or visual media, from the social media company�s social
media platform.

���� Under the bill, intimate
images or videos are defined to include images or videos that depict intimate
parts, sexual penetration, or sexual contact in any manner in which such
objects or acts are not completely and opaquely covered.� An intimate image or
video would be considered nonconsensual when the individual in the image or
video did not give express consent for the image or video to be taken,
recorded, or disclosed.� Additionally, if an intimate image or video depicts a
minor, the intimate image or video would be considered nonconsensual whenever
the image or video is disclosed.� In the event the image is a work of deceptive
audio or visual media, it is considered nonconsensual when an individual who is
depicted in the media did not give express consent for the image or video to be
created or disclosed.� If the individual depicted in the intimate image or
video of deceptive audio or visual media is depicted as a minor or is a minor
when the image or video was created or disclosed, the deceptive audio or visual
media is considered nonconsensual whenever the image or video is disclosed.

���� Specifically, the bill
requires each social media company to establish and implement procedures to
assist nonprofit organizations in monitoring, flagging, and removing
nonconsensual intimate images or videos that are disclosed on a social media
platform.� Upon receiving a request to remove any nonconsensual intimate images
or videos, the bill requires a social media company to immediately remove the
flagged material from the social media platform until a thorough review has
been completed and the social media company has determined that the intimate
images or videos were consensual.

���� The bill imposes a civil
penalty of $10,000 for a first offense, and $20,000 for a second and each
subsequent offense, in addition to any other penalty imposed by law.