Deepfakes Heatmap

Rooted Reality reviewed South Carolina State House materials on H 3517 and related deepfake-election proposals. Public trackers indicated an active 2025–2026 bill, but we couldn't verify it against a stable South Carolina primary source on the May 5, 2026 review. No enforceable rule shows on this card today.

• South Carolina has no verified state-level deepfake rule on this card today — federal law and each platform's own content policy are what apply here.
• Tracker activity around H 3517 suggests movement, but movement isn't a rule. Until the bill clears both chambers and is signed, nothing changes for households here.
• Federal protections (intimate-image laws, election-fraud statutes, CSAM rules) and a depicted person's existing civil claims still apply regardless of South Carolina's state-level posture.

• Open H 3517 on the South Carolina State House's bill-tracking site — committee action, floor votes, and the Governor's action all get recorded there first.
• 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.