Deepfakes Heatmap

Rooted Reality reviewed Rhode Island legislation for S 816 and HB 5872 and related deepfake-election measures. Public trackers indicated July 2025 enactments, but we couldn't verify them against a stable Rhode Island primary source on the May 5, 2026 review — so this card stays at no verified rule until we can read the enacted text directly.

• Rhode Island has no verified state-level deepfake rule on this card today, even though public reporting points to S 816 and HB 5872. Treat the gap as a verification gap, not a finding about Rhode Island's actual posture.
• If those measures are enacted as reported, the next verified review will move this card to a colored status and surface the enacted 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 Rhode Island's state-level posture.

• Open S 816 and HB 5872 directly on the Rhode Island General Assembly's bill-status pages — those show the Governor's action and the public-law chapter when a bill is enacted.
• 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.