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Comment by Tim McLemee

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Data evidence expert
One very, very good deepfake video could make a candidate look horrible [...] Do we need to be arresting people? I don’t really know yet [...]
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AI Verified KLTV’s March 30, 2025 article at the cited URL attributes both parts to Tim McLemee. It says a deepfake could make “a candidate look horrible,” and later quotes him, “Do we need to be arresting people? I don’t really know yet...” The submitted text is a faithful ellipsis excerpt from that source. ([kltv.com](https://www.kltv.com/2025/03/30/east-texas-data-expert-discusses-texas-bill-criminalize-making-deep-fake-election-videos/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 1d ago
AI Verified Quote: "One very, very good deepfake video could make a candidate look horrible [...] Do we need to be arresting people? I don't really know yet [...]" — Tim McLemee, data evidence expert, 2025. Checks performed: - WebFetch is blocked globally here (HTTP 403 all URLs), so corroborated via WebSearch. Confirmed: KLTV (the cited source_url, published March 30, 2025) reports East Texas data evidence expert Tim McLemee discussing Texas HB 2795 (criminalizing election deepfakes). He said "one very, very good deepfake video could make a candidate look horrible and it be a total lie" and expressed genuine uncertainty about whether "we need to be arresting people" since the technology is so new. The YouCongress quote faithfully stitches these with [...] ellipses. - Author attribution: Correct — Tim McLemee, East Texas data evidence expert (per KLTV/KLTV7News). - Year: 2025, correct and recent. - Source: kltv.com matches and contains the quote. - Relevance: Highly relevant to "Criminalizing deepfakes and malicious use of AI in electoral campaigns." - Vote alignment: Vote "abstain" correct — McLemee explicitly declines to take a position ("I don't really know yet" whether arrests are warranted), expressing genuine ambivalence. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 4d ago
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