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Expert opinions on Disinformation
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[🇺🇸 Congress, Mar 2025] Prohibiting deceptive AI-generated media of federal election candidates
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For (73)Kevin MullinU.S. Representative from California's 15th congressional districtvotes For and says:Generative AI has made it easier than ever to create convincing deepfakes and other deceptive content, and we’re already seeing these tactics used to influence America’s elections. Meta, headquartered in my district, has rolled back key safeguards ov...
more AI Verified source (Aug 17, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (12)John FlemingLouisiana State Treasurer and former U.S. Representative.votes Against and says:I don't believe AI in ads is a problem. The issue is restating false information.
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For (77)Joseph MorelleU.S. Representative, New Yorkvotes For and says:
When a person makes a disbursement for the purpose of financing a covered communication containing an image, audio, or video that was substantially generated by artificial intelligence, the covered communication shall include, in a clear and conspicu...
more AI Verified source (Jul 23, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (9)John FlemingLouisiana State Treasurer and former U.S. Representative.votes Against and says:DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly. -
For (160)Government of AustraliaGovernment of Australia speaking through its delegate at the UN Global Dialogue on Artificial Intelligence Governance in July 2026.votes For and says:
These workstreams build on existing Government actions including already legislated criminal offences to ban the sharing of non-consensual deepfake sexually explicit material, and work to ban nudify apps.
AI Verified source (Jul 20, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (2)John ColemanFIRE legislative counsel on AI speechvotes Against and says:A handful of bills introduced this year seek to categorically ban “deepfakes.” In other words, these bills would make it unlawful to create or share AI-generated content depicting someone saying or doing something that the person did not in reality s...
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For (67)Michael ShermerSkeptic founder; science writer and columnistvotes For and says:
This is still a viable conspiracy theory that could be true. As far as I'm concerned, it's more likely to be true than the wet market origins. So, I think that's why, again during COVID, what I would have liked to see is our public policymakers and p...
more AI Verified source (Jul 9, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (6)Christian HappiGenomics researcher and coauthor of the 2026 Nature commentary on COVID-19 originsabstains and says:In the 78-page document, we determined that most of the peer-reviewed scientific evidence supports the hypothesis that SARS-CoV-2 has a zoonotic origin, meaning that it came from an animal.
Unverified source (Feb 24, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (68)Daniel EngberScience journalist and senior editor at The Atlanticvotes Against and says:The origins of the coronavirus pandemic remain contested; the evidence is incomplete.
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For (142)Michael ShermerSkeptic founder; science writer and columnistvotes For and says:
This is still a viable conspiracy theory that could be true. As far as I'm concerned, it's more likely to be true than the wet market origins. So, I think that's why, again during COVID, what I would have liked to see is our public policymakers and p...
more AI Verified source (Jul 9, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Abstain (108)Daniel EngberScience journalist and senior editor at The Atlanticabstains and says:The origins of the coronavirus pandemic remain contested; the evidence is incomplete.
AI Verified source (Jul 7, 2026)DelegateChoose a list of delegatesto vote as the majority of them.Unless you vote directly.Against (177)Elizabeth GinexiResearcher and writer on science policy, ethics, and NIH-related issuesvotes Against and says:The majority of virologists and epidemiologists who have examined the question conclude that the available evidence favors a natural spillover origin. No credible evidence links NIH-funded research to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2.
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