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Rep. Clarke Urges Passage of Deepfake Legislation

Congress should pass legislation addressing deepfakes because crimes like revenge porn are destroying lives, Rep. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., said during an interview with The Communicators, to be online Friday and on C-SPAN this weekend. “It’s important the American people know…

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these are deceptive uses of videos,” she said, voicing support for her Deep Fake Accountability Act (HR-3230). She argued Silicon Valley companies aren’t hiring a diverse workforce, which bakes discrimination into the system through algorithms and other tools. She credited the EU for setting up guardrails around data management, an area where she said the U.S. is lagging. She urged the administration to do more to protect U.S. networks from bad actors like Huawei. She said she wouldn’t own a Huawei phone. Most asked whether they'd own such a phone by the program answer no.