Sen. Johnson: Stop deep fake images | Opinion
The technology for digitally altering images and creating fake videos gets more powerful every day. It gives election saboteurs the ability to make us think and feel things that aren’t real, and to vote accordingly. It’s a growing threat to the integrity of our elections and our democratic institutions.
The threat applies without regard to state boundaries, so you’d think the federal government would have already acted to safeguard the electoral process against manipulation by digital hacks. Alas, this is yet another area where Congress hasn’t performed its duty, and responsible action falls to the states.
The 2019 law did not, however, address a simpler manipulation tool — altered still images. This session, I filed Senate Bill 1044 to expand the reach of the 2019 “deep fake” law to include digitally altered images: photos manipulated to change in a realistic way how someone looks, or to show them doing something they didn’t actually do, with the intent to deceive people and influence the outcome of an election.
But this isn’t about free speech or damage to reputation or hurt feelings. It’s about protecting voters and the electoral process from malicious manipulation. And it’s not that hard. The bill doesn’t regulate caricatures, cartoons, satire or superficial changes; it applies to only deliberate attempts to trick us.
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