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Comment by Robert Weissman

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President, Public Citizen
This deepfake is a disgrace and the NRSC should put it down immediately. Political deepfakes are a profound threat to our democracy, because there is no realistic way for voters to understand they are seeing fake representations rather than real video.
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AI Verified The official Public Citizen page dated March 12, 2026 attributes a quoted statement to “Robert Weissman, co-president of Public Citizen,” and it contains the submitted two-sentence passage verbatim as the opening of a longer quote. That confirms the text is real, correctly attributed, and present at the cited source. ([citizen.org](https://www.citizen.org/news/talarico-deepfake-proves-urgent-need-for-federal-ai-protections/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 21h ago
AI Verified Quote attributed to Robert Weissman (President/co-president, Public Citizen), year 2026. Source URL (citizen.org press release) returned HTTP 403 to WebFetch, but a web search confirmed the quote verbatim, attributed to Weissman regarding the NRSC's AI deepfake of Texas Senate candidate James Talarico (March 2026): "is a disgrace and the NRSC should put it down immediately. Political deepfakes are a profound threat to our democracy, because there is no realistic way for voters to understand they are seeing fake representations rather than real video." Confirmed by Common Dreams and Public Citizen's own statements. Author attribution correct (his bio says "President"; sources also say "co-president" — minor, not material to the quote). Year 2026 current. Source URL is the Public Citizen primary press release. Vote alignment correct: statement "Mandate disclosure of AI-generated political advertising" is voted "for," matching Weissman's condemnation of the deepfake and his call for federal AI protections/transparency (he noted the ad's "AI-generated" watermark was "all but invisible"). · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-7 · 20d ago
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