Missouri digital reality posture profile
This page summarizes six tracked digital safety topics for Missouri, showing where public legislative coverage currently looks more proactive, more reactive, broader, or thinner. It is a structural posture signal based on public disclosures, not a political or legal grade.
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Not legal advice. Laws and enforcement change frequently. Verify current official statutes, regulations, and counsel where needed.
Overall state posture signal
Mixed posture with narrow tracked coverage.
Based on six tracked topics and public disclosures.
Posture meter
Lean and breadth across six tracked topics. Not a quality or political score.
Lean
Mixed posture
Breadth
Narrow tracked coverage
Missouri Synthetic Explicit Content law summary
Based on adjacent fraud, privacy, impersonation, or child-safety coverage.
Missouri's child-pornography law already reaches computer-generated and AI-made images of minors. Based on public records, Section 573.010 (effective August 28, 2022) defines "child pornography" to include a "computer-generated image that is, or is indistinguishable from, that of a minor engaging in sexually explicit conduct," plus images "created, adapted, or modified to show that an identifiable minor" is involved. This is a general child-abuse-material statute rather than a dedicated deepfake law, and by its own terms it does not cover non-consensual synthetic images of adults. A separate 2026 measure, HB 1887 (the "Taylor Swift Act") — which would criminalize non-consensual sexual deepfakes of adults and further expand AI-generated child-pornography coverage — passed the Missouri House 145-3 on April 21, 2026 and moved to the Senate, so this area may expand.
Educational summary only
Not legal advice. Laws and enforcement change frequently. Verify current official statutes, regulations, and counsel where needed.
Why this status
Based on adjacent fraud, privacy, impersonation, or child-safety coverage.
What this means
- Missouri's enacted child-pornography statute (Section 573.010) reaches computer-generated and "indistinguishable" depictions of minors, but it is a general CSAM definition rather than a dedicated deepfake law and does not cover synthetic images of adults.
What to do next
- Read the cited statute or bill text linked below to confirm the specifics for your state.
Citation-grade sources
Official sources
1Missouri Revised Statutes Section 573.010 — Definitions (child pornography)
Official textCitation: Section 573.010(4)(b) defines child pornography to include a digital/computer-generated image that is or is indistinguishable from a minor, and images created, adapted, or modified to show an identifiable minor; effective 8/28/2022 per A.L. 2022 S.B. 775.
Observed: 2026-07-07Open source
Context / secondary sources
2Enough Abuse — State Laws Criminalizing AI-Generated/Computer-Edited CSAM (Missouri entry)
Discovery leadObserved: 2026-07-07Open sourceSt. Louis Public Radio — Missouri House passes HB 1887 targeting AI deepfakes (April 21, 2026)
Discovery leadObserved: 2026-07-07Open source
Provenance
Source basis
Official/public links curated
Confidence
High confidence
Review scope
Review centered on currently tracked state-level law
Last reviewed
2026-07-07 · 7 July 2026
References
Missouri Revised Statutes Section 573.010 — Definitions (child pornography)
Enough Abuse — State Laws Criminalizing AI-Generated/Computer-Edited CSAM (Missouri entry)
St. Louis Public Radio — Missouri House passes HB 1887 targeting AI deepfakes (April 21, 2026)
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