S 1396 · in committee · significant
Content Origin Protection and Integrity from Edited and Deepfaked Media Act of 2025
- technology
What this bill does
- Tools that create or modify digital content must let users embed information about where content came from and how it changed.
- Social media platforms and websites are banned from removing or hiding this origin information from users.
- The FTC and state attorneys general enforce the rules, with fines for violations and removal of protections for copyrighted work.
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Community Threads
Started by Cosponsor
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How would requiring origin metadata on all edited content affect creators who want privacy or anonymity when sharing their work?
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What costs might social media platforms face to implement systems that preserve and display origin information across all user-generated content?
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If platforms cannot remove origin information, how would this change their ability to moderate deepfakes or misleading manipulated videos?
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Sponsor · D-WA
Maria Cantwell
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Introduced 2025-04-09
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Legislative timeline
2025-04-09 · senate · IntroReferral
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation.
2025-04-09 · IntroReferral
Introduced in Senate
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