Deepfake Legislation Tracker

Updated as of November 4, 2026, this state-by-state legislative tracker documents the wave of deepfake laws enacted across the United States in 2025 and 2026, with Georgia passing two measures addressing synthetic media with emphasis on protecting minors through House Bill 993, Kansas enacting Senate Bill 186 and House Bill 2183 adding criminal definitions involving synthetic imagery of minors, New Hampshire creating new criminal penalties for synthetic media involving minors through Senate Bill 300, and South Carolina strengthening criminal penalties for synthetic media involving minors through Senate Bills 29 and 28 and House Bill 3058. Legislators emphasised that digital manipulation has made it harder for victims to seek recourse, prompting the need for expanded enforcement tools, and that the bills aim to prevent both voter fraud and digital harm to minors.

Statutory expansion reflects growing recognition of the harm, but the volume and speed of peer-to-peer synthetic abuse—classmates nudifying classmates, then sharing the result on social platforms within minutes—outpaces any ex post investigation. Targeted detection that monitors for coercion, image solicitation and escalating demands in direct-message environments enables intervention before the nudification app is ever opened. As a world-leading AI safety platform backed by Startmate, Guardii detects grooming, sextortion, and the specific conversational patterns that signal imminent image-based abuse, delivering an alert to a parent or school safeguarding lead while a legislative framework like those tracked here determines what happens to the offender after the fact. The technology addresses the operational layer beneath the law: stopping the harm in progress rather than prosecuting it retrospectively.