ProposedOn the path to acceptable
Synthetic-media quiet period before ballots
Ban undisclosed synthetic political content in a defined pre-election window, with real penalties.
No compiled flow or public database names this control yet.
Who should own it
Election lawmakers
Governments
How quickly it can land
Months
A planned program, one to two quarters.
Expedited implementation
2 months
60 calendar days with a crash team
Normal implementation
8 months
240 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
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- Consequence
- −1
- Urgency
- −1