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Comment by Robert Weissman

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President, Public Citizen
The deepfake has an ability to fool the voter into believing that they are themselves seeing a person say or do something they didn’t say.
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AI Verified The provided Bay News 9/AP article dated August 10, 2023 contains the exact sentence and introduces it with “Public Citizen President Robert Weissman,” then attributes the statement to him with “he said,” confirming it is real, verbatim, and correctly attributed. ([baynews9.com](https://baynews9.com/fl/tampa/ap-top-news/2023/08/10/fec-moves-toward-potentially-regulating-ai-deepfakes-in-campaign-ads)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Checked: (1) Year 2023 is correct — said at the FEC's August 10, 2023 meeting on Public Citizen's deepfake petition. (2) Relevancy: on-topic for statement 408 (criminalizing deepfakes/malicious AI in electoral campaigns). (3) Author attribution: confirmed — Robert Weissman is President of Public Citizen, the group that filed the petition. Web search confirmed the verbatim quote: "The deepfake has an ability to fool the voter into believing that they are themselves seeing a person say or do something they didn't say." (4) Vote alignment: he voted "for"; Public Citizen actively petitioned to regulate/ban political deepfakes, so supporting the statement and "for" is correct. (5) Source: baynews9.com (AP Top News repost) returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch, but web search confirmed the quote verbatim and correctly attributed to Weissman from the same August 10, 2023 AP story. Verified. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 7d ago
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