re: Good job again, Texas! Texas House passed a bill to criminalize political memes

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Sec.A255.0015.AAREQUIRED DISCLOSURE ON CERTAIN POLITICAL
ADVERTISING CONTAINING ALTERED MEDIA; CRIMINAL PENALTY. (a) This
section applies only to a person who:
(1) is an officeholder, candidate, or political
committee;
(2) makes expenditures during a reporting period that in the aggregate exceed $100 for political advertising, other than an expense to cover the basic cost of hardware, messaging software, and bandwidth; or
(3) publishes, distributes, or broadcasts political advertising described by Subsection (b) in return for consideration.
(b) A person may not, with the intent to influence an election, knowingly cause to be published, distributed, or broadcast political advertising that includes an image, audio recording, or video recording of an officeholder’s or candidate’s appearance, speech, or conduct that did not occur in reality, including an image, audio recording, or video recording that has been altered using generative artificial intelligence technology, unless the political advertising includes a disclosure from the person or another person on whose behalf the political advertising is published, distributed, or broadcast indicating that the image, audio recording, or video recording did not occur in reality.

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