In progress
Provenance credentials on political audio and video
C2PA-style signing from camera to broadcast, with a visible break when the chain is missing.
$18M experimental capital · 1 source
Who should own it
Platforms and broadcasters
Platforms
How quickly it can land
Weeks
A dedicated squad can land it inside two months.
Expedited implementation
6 weeks
45 calendar days with a crash team
Normal implementation
5 months
150 calendar days as a planned program
Risk this mitigates
16Given that candidates, parties, and platforms are already deploying or failing to contain deepfakes at campaign scale, and state law is lagging live ads, there is a possibility of voters treating synthetic audio or video as authentic political reality resulting in illegitimate election outcomes, or legitimate ones that a large public no longer accepts.
Residual composite 16 · still above the threshold
Effect if implemented
Applied to every failure scenario on that risk, then re-ranked. Axes are clamped at 1.
- Likelihood
- −1
- Consequence
- −0
- Urgency
- −0