Deepfakes Heatmap

Rooted Reality reviewed South Dakota Legislature materials on SB 164 and related election-deepfake terms. Public trackers indicated a March 2025 enactment, but we couldn't verify it against a stable South Dakota primary source on the May 5, 2026 review — so this card stays at no verified rule until we can read the enacted text directly.

• South Dakota has no verified state-level deepfake rule on this card today, even though public reporting points to SB 164. Treat the gap as a verification gap, not a finding about South Dakota's actual posture.
• If SB 164 is in fact enacted, 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 South Dakota's state-level posture.

• Open SB 164 on the South Dakota Legislature's bill-tracking site — the page shows the Governor's action and the chaptered session-law citation if it's 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.