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Comment by Michael Watson

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Mississippi Secretary of State
As we approach Election Day, it is imperative Mississippians arm themselves with knowledge of the growing threat of AI deepfakes. These hyper-realistic, AI-generated forgeries of videos, images, and pieces of audio aren’t just a sign of an advancing technological landscape—they pose a real risk for our elections. [...] In Mississippi, our team worked with the legislature during the 2024 Legislative Session to pass Senate Bill 2577, which ensures bad actors are penalized for the wrongful dissemination of deepfakes.
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AI Verified Confirmed. The supplied /press URL contains the quoted language verbatim, with only an omitted middle section marked by [...]: the first passage appears in the article body (“As we approach Election Day...they pose a real risk for our elections.”) and the second appears later (“In Mississippi, our team worked...wrongful dissemination of deepfakes.”). The page is dated Monday, October 7, 2024, and the column is signed “MICHAEL WATSON,” so the stored author, date, text, and source URL are supported by the source. ([sos.ms.gov](https://www.sos.ms.gov/press/opinion-column-growing-threat-ai-deepfakes)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 3d ago
Disputed The official Mississippi Secretary of State page dated October 7, 2024 contains the first two sentences exactly and later contains the SB 2577 sentence, and the column is signed “MICHAEL WATSON.” But the submitted block is not verbatim as presented: it omits intervening text between those passages without marking the omission with [...], so it is a stitched quote rather than an exact continuous quotation. ([sos.ms.gov](https://www.sos.ms.gov/press/opinion-column-growing-threat-ai-deepfakes)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
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