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Deepfakes

California

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Sources

Why this status

California's leginfo.legislature.ca.gov blocks our automated reader, so Rooted Reality couldn't pull verifiable text for AB 2839 or AB 730 on this run. Without a clean read of those primary sources, we won't publish a confidence-graded posture for California deepfake rules today. The references on this card point to the official California Legislature pages — they're readable in a normal browser, just not by our automated reader.

What this means

California is a state where we know rules exist but we couldn't verify the current text on this review cycle. Treat "under review" as a candid gap, not a finding about California's actual posture — California has been one of the most active states on synthetic-media regulation.
AB 2839 and AB 730 are real California legislation. The links on this card go to the legitimate California Legislature site; only our automated fetch was blocked, not the underlying material.
We'll republish this card the moment we can verify the bill text against a stable, fetchable source — either through a different California Legislature endpoint or once their access policy changes.

What to verify next

Open the AB 2839 and AB 730 links in your normal browser — they load cleanly there and show the latest official status of each bill.
The California Attorney General's office and the California Secretary of State also publish guidance that fills in around these statutes, and both sites are readable in normal browsers.

How this was scored →

Public-source posture estimateNot legal adviceMap regenerated2026-05-08 · 8 May 2026