CALIFORNIA LAWMAKER PROPOSES BAN ON ‘DEEP FAKE’ VIDEOS
Jul 06, 2019
2 minutes
A California lawmaker is proposing to restrict the sharing of manipulated videos depicting politicians amid mounting concerns that increasingly convincing “deep fakes” could give rise to misinformation in the approaching 2020 election.
But as policy makers grapple with an emerging technology, proposals to regulate videos have spurred debate about free speech and the government’s role in regulating political discourse.
Assemblyman Marc Berman, a Democrat from
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