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Election Law - Online Campaign Material - Use of Deepfakes
MD · Legislation · 2020 · HB198
Record updated Jan 21, 2020
Summary
Prohibiting certain persons from willfully or knowingly influencing or attempting to influence a voter's decision to go to the polls or to cast a vote for a particular candidate by publishing, distributing, or disseminating a deepfake online within 90 days of an election; providing that the prohibition does not apply to a person who discloses certain information on the deepfake; providing that a certain person who violates the Act is guilty of a misdemeanor and may be subject to a certain fine and imprisonment or both; etc.
Timeline
2020-01-21
H
Hearing canceled
2020-01-21
H
Hearing 2/06 at 1:00 p.m.
2020-01-20
H
Hearing 2/04 at 1:00 p.m.
2020-01-16
H
First Reading Ways and Means
Bill Text
Pending
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