NJ joins states urging search engine crackdown on deepfake ‘revenge porn’ Erin Vogt Published: August 26, 2025 NJ joins group calling for crackdown on deepfake revenge porn (Getty Stock/ThinkStock, Canva)

TRENTON — New Jersey has joined a bipartisan coalition of the vast majority of the U.S. states, calling for better internet safeguards against deepfake “revenge porn.”

Computer-generated, nonconsensual intimate imagery” is a growing problem used to embarrass, intimidate, and exploit teens and adults, which overwhelmingly targets female victims.

Google, Microsoft Bing, and Yahoo! search engines have been collectively urged to limit searches on how to create such materials, in a joint letter signed by New Jersey Attorney General Matthew Platkin.

New Jersey and the coalition have

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