Prohibit pornographic deepfakes made without the person's consent
Artificial intelligence
Owners voting their values help. Others must carry most of it.
Why shareholder democracy is helpful
Making nonconsensual deepfake pornography a crime is the work of legislatures and courts. Platform conduct still shapes how far this material spreads, since companies decide what their services host and remove. Owners have a record on exactly this kind of harm. The Proxy Impact resolution asking Meta to report on combating online child sexual exploitation won about 56 percent of the non-management-controlled vote in 2021. ICCR's digital rights program engages platforms on harmful content and child safety online. No corporate blockade stands here. Congress passed the TAKE IT DOWN Act with broad bipartisan support, and the president signed it on May 19, 2025. The law makes publication of nonconsensual intimate images, including AI deepfakes, a federal crime. What remains is enforcement by prosecutors and the Federal Trade Commission, a government task.
How this was scoredHelpful
Helpful. Owners voting their values help. Others must carry most of it.
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Sources
- Common Ground of the American People: Artificial Intelligence, Program for Public Consultation / Voice of the People, 2026 (study February 2024)
- Proxy Impact: Meta Shareholders to Vote on Resolution Asking Company to Combat Online Child Sexual Exploitation, PR Newswire (Proxy Impact), 2022-05
- Digital Rights and AI Accountability, Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility, accessed 2026-08-28
- President Trump Signs Take It Down Act Into Law, Latham & Watkins, 2025-05
What civil society organizations are helping owners on this
Has filed child safety proposals at Meta every year since 2020 on behalf of shareholder Lisette Cooper, asking the company to assess and report on child sexual exploitation risk and adopt child safety metrics.
ICCR members co-filed the Proxy Impact proposals asking Meta to report on how end-to-end encryption would affect its efforts to combat online child sexual exploitation.
Filed a 2024 proposal asking Meta to report on generative AI risks, citing sexualized nonconsensual AI-generated images circulating on Facebook and Instagram and ads for nudification tools on Instagram.
Exempt solicitation, Meta Platforms Proposal 6, Arjuna Capital via SEC EDGAR, 2024-04
4 campaigns on record
Assess the feasibility of tying senior executive compensation to improvements in child safety on its platforms.
With 13 faith-based and institutional investors holding about 800 million dollars of Meta stock
Result: not stated in source; prior child safety proposals at Meta received up to 59 percent support from independent shareholders
Publish a report with targets and quantitative metrics assessing whether the company has improved child safety performance and reduced harm to children, including sextortion, on its platforms.
With 18 institutional investors from North America and Europe
Result: not stated in source
Adopt targets and publish annual reports with quantitative metrics to assess whether Meta has improved its performance globally on child safety impacts.
Result: 18.5 percent of the overall vote and 59.1 percent of the non-management vote.
Issue a report assessing the risks presented by the company's role in facilitating misinformation and disinformation disseminated or generated via generative AI, including sexualized nonconsensual AI-generated images.
With Open MIC, Eko
Result: About 17 percent of votes in favor; not passed.
Meta Investors Reject Scrutinizing Risk of AI Misinformation, Bloomberg Law, 2024-05
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How this rating was made
Every item on every one of our maps is read against one question: how far does this depend on the people who own companies voting their values? We answer it twice, once for what companies do and once for what they spend to stop the outcome, and take whichever answer is higher, since the same vote reaches both. The score carries its reasoning and its sources so that a reader can check it rather than take it.
- Pivotal. Owners voting their values can deliver most of the outcome.
- Necessary. Owners remove an obstacle nothing else removes, and others must also act.
- Helpful. Owners voting their values help, and others carry most of it.
- Independent. This moves without owners. Other levers carry it.
The advocacy record on this page holds only what a source we opened says happened. Where we searched and found nothing, the page says so rather than leaving a silence. Where a campaign names a filer the source does not name, it says that too. Ratings are ours; the list of subjects is Common Ground of the American People's, and we link to their original.
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