Deepfakes Heatmap

Rooted Reality reviewed New York Legislature materials on the FY 2024–25 budget deepfake provisions and the 2025–2026 deepfake-election bills. Public trackers showed enacted budget language and active bills, but we couldn't verify any of them against a stable New York primary source on the May 5, 2026 review. No enforceable rule shows on this card today until we can read the enacted text directly.

• New York has no verified state-level deepfake rule on this card today, even though public reporting points to budget-bill language and active 2025–2026 measures. Treat the gap as a verification gap, not a finding about New York's actual posture.
• If the budget provisions and active bills are enacted as reported, the next verified review will move this card to a colored status and surface the scope and effective date.
• Federal protections (intimate-image laws, election-fraud statutes, CSAM rules) and a depicted person's existing civil claims still apply regardless of New York's state-level posture.

• Open the New York State Senate and Assembly bill-search tools and look up the FY 2024–25 enacted budget bill plus the 2025–2026 deepfake-election measures — enacted text and signing memos are recorded there.
• For content concerns today, the platform's own policy and federal complaint paths (FBI IC3 for fraud, NCMEC for content involving minors) are the active levers.