Media Coverage: “‘Election integrity’ activists speak out against labels for political deepfakes”

South Dakota Searchlight covered the Voter Defense Association’s support of prohibiting the use of a deepfake to influence an election (Senate Bill 164).

“Our system of electoral democracy depends on having a shared reality,” Zebadiah Johnson, [lobbyist for the Voter Defense Association] said, adding, “deepfakes pose a real and substantial threat to that shared reality.”

You can read the story at the link below:

South Dakota Searchlight
2/24/25 - ‘Election integrity’ activists speak out against labels for political deepfakes

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