Sen. Ossoff Pressing Big Tech Over Sexual Exploitation of Children Online

Washington, D.C.— U.S. Senator Jon Ossoff is pressuring Big Tech over sexual exploitation of children.
Sen. Ossoff today launched inquiries withApple,Google,Meta,Amazon, andXover tech companies’advertisement and distributionof “nudifying” apps that allow users to swiftly create explicit images of children and teenagers.
Astudyfound that 16% of U.S. teenagers between 13 and 17 surveyed reported personally knowing someone who has been targeted with an AI-generated deepfake image while a minor, and 11% reported finding out that deepfake nudes of themselves as minors were being shared or reshared by other people.
“Nudify websites and apps have become increasingly prevalent and accessible online, making it easy for users to AI generate deepfake sexually explicit content, for example, from photos available on social media, without the consent or awareness of the victim,”Sen. Ossoff wrote to the big tech companies.
“Allowing third parties to use their services to access, distribute, or advertise websites and applications with nudifying functions makes tech companies complicit in these harms. Proactive action is therefore necessary to identify and limit such applications,”Sen. Ossoff also wrote.
Sen. Ossoff continues working to protect children online.
In December, the U.S. SenatepassedSens. Ossoff and Chuck Grassley (R-IA)’s bipartisanPreventing Child Trafficking Act of 2025to strengthen coordination between the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to better stop child trafficking and protect kids.
In July 2025, Sen. Ossoffcosponsoredthe bipartisanKids Online Safety Act, which would impose new requirements on digital platforms to protect children from being targeted online with harmful content.
In March 2025, Sen. Ossoffcosponsoredthe bipartisanChildren and Teens’ Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA 2.0)to limit use of children’s information for individually targeted advertising.
In 2024, Sen. Ossoff’s bipartisanREPORT Actwith Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN)became law, which — for the first time — requires websites and social media platforms to report crimes involving Federal trafficking and enticement of children to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). Since the law’s enactment, NCMEChas seena 952% increase in reports of child sex trafficking and a 77% increase in reports of online enticement of children.
In 2023, Sens. Ossoff and Grassley’s bipartisanPreventing Child Sex Abuse Act of 2023was signed into law, which strengthened Federal protections against the sexual abuse of children, including online exploitation.
Please find Sen. Ossoff’s inquiries here withApple,Google,Meta,Amazon, andX.
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