Elections; political campaign advertisements; synthetic media; penalty. Prohibits electioneering communications containing synthetic media, as those terms are defined in the bill, from being published or broadcast without containing the following conspicuously displayed statement: "This message contains synthetic media that has been altered from its original source or artificially generated and may present conduct or speech that did not occur." The bill makes it a civil penalty not to exceed $25,000 to violate such prohibition and for a willful violation, a Class 1 misdemeanor.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 24.2-955, 24.2-955.1, 24.2-955.3, 24.2-960
Privileges and Elections Substitute: 8.01-261, 19.2-249.2