WEBINAR

Virtual Fireside Chat: The TAKE IT DOWN Act, Six Months In - What's Changed on Deepfakes and NCII

October 9, 2026

Overview

Recorded on October 9, 2026, this Virtual Fireside Chat brings together Nidhi Lahoti, NCII Scaling Lead at Google, and Kavya Sharma, Group Manager of Severe Harms at ALICE, for a conversation framed by the TAKE IT DOWN Act (TIDA).

Six months into enforcement, they look at what has changed for platforms: the 48-hour removal requirement, the rise of synthetic NCII and nudification apps, why takedown alone comes too late in the harm cycle, and how survivor-centered design and cross-platform signal sharing can help. A useful watch for Trust & Safety, AI safety, and policy practitioners working on NCII.

Chapters

00:00 Welcome and what TIDA requires

02:27 Six months on: what's changed

05:13 Why takedown alone is too late

08:53 Setting a high floor across regulations

11:52 Advice for practitioners new to NCII

17:31 Operationalizing: stress testing, hash matching, signals

21:45 Survivor-centered design

25:08 Cross-platform signal sharing

30:30 What counts as NCII

36:29 Coercion, trafficking, and sextortion

42:20 AI deepfakes and nudification

51:47 Over-flagging and adult content

57:21 Closing thoughts

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This conversation covers sensitive topics, including image-based abuse, sextortion, and trafficking. Please listen with care.

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Meet our speakers

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Nidhi Lahoti

NCII Scaling Lead at Google

Nidhi Lahoti leads NCII strategy and scaling efforts within Trust & Safety at Google, where she develops and implements policies to protect users from non-consensual intimate imagery across multiple products. Her work sits at the intersection of policy and platform operations, tackling how these harms scale across ecosystems.

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Kavya Sharma

Group Manager, Severe Harms at Alice

Kavya Sharma leads Severe Harms research at Alice, investigating abuse across digital spaces - including child abuse, sexual abuse, human trafficking, and NCII. Her work sits at the intersection of trust & safety and AI safety, tracking how bad actors exploit emerging ecosystems.

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