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Washington Secretary of State
My staff and I have monitored trends across the globe, and the spread of deepfakes into state and local races is happening now in America.
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AI Verified The official Washington Secretary of State news release dated August 5, 2024 contains this statement and attributes it to Steve Hobbs: “My staff and I have monitored trends across the globe, and the spread of deepfakes into state and local races is happening now in America,” followed by “Hobbs said.” The submitted quote matches the wording; the only difference is that the source uses a comma before the attribution, while the submitted version ends the sentence with a period. ([sos.wa.gov](https://www.sos.wa.gov/about-office/news/2024/secretary-hobbs-warns-voters-about-2024-election-misinformation)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 5d ago
AI Verified Quote: Steve Hobbs (Washington Secretary of State) — "My staff and I have monitored trends across the globe, and the spread of deepfakes into state and local races is happening now in America." Statement #408 (criminalizing deepfakes and malicious use of AI in electoral campaigns), vote=for. A web search returned this exact verbatim sentence directly from Hobbs's official statement (matching multiple outlets: sos.wa.gov, NW Asian Weekly, The Skanner, Lake Chelan Mirror, all Aug 2024). The source_url is the official WA Secretary of State news release that contains this quote; the page returned HTTP 403 on direct WebFetch (anti-bot), but the verbatim text is confirmed via web search quoting it. Author attribution correct (Steve Hobbs, WA SoS). Year 2024 correct (warning issued August 2024). Vote=for is CORRECT and well-supported: at Hobbs's request, Washington enacted SB 5152 (2023) creating the state's first limits on deepfakes in political campaigning (disclosure requirements + right to sue for undisclosed deepfakes), so Hobbs clearly supports regulating/penalizing malicious electoral deepfakes — directly aligning with the statement. Verified on the basis of verbatim confirmation of the quote and the author's documented supporting position. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 8d ago
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