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FEC
By Daniela Altimari
.....The Federal Election Commission on Thursday was deadlocked on a request to develop regulations for AI-generated deepfake political ads.
Public Citizen, a nonpartisan advocacy group, submitted a petition last month asking the commission to establish rules, noting that advances in artificial intelligence have given political operatives the tools to produce campaign ads with computer-generated fake images that appear real. Such ads could misrepresent a candidate’s political views, a violation of existing federal law…
Commissioner Allen Dickerson said the commission doesn’t have the power to regulate such ads.
“With my full support the commission has asked Congress to expand our authority, and I understand draft legislation has been introduced, but right now the only fraud we’re entitled to police is where an agent of one candidate pretends to be the agent of another or where a person raises funds by fraudulently claiming to be acting on behalf of the campaign with which he or she is unaffiliated,” Dickerson said during Thursday’s meeting.
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The Courts
By Eugene Volokh
.....From Judge Mark Goldsmith's opinion in Hernden v. Chippewa Valley Schools (E.D. Mich.); note that the question here is simply where the Board could potentially be held liable as an entity for the Bednard e-mail, not yet whether the e-mail actually violated Hernden's constitutional rights (for more, see the Complaint and the attached e-mails):
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The Media
By Post Editorial Board
.....Donated to political candidates the New Republic dislikes, as OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush did?
Then you deserve to die in an undersea tragedy.
That was the strong implication of a truly gross piece the left-wing rag pumped out Wednesday about the missing Titanic sub, bearing the headline “OceanGate CEO Missing in Titanic Sub Had History of Donating to GOP Candidates.”
Keep in mind: There’s zero hope left. The craft’s oxygen supply is far past its limit, even if hypothermia didn’t doom the passengers the first day.
Yet TNR’s Daniel Strauss thought it mattered that “Stockton Rush, the CEO of OceanGate currently stuck on the missing Titan submersible that was running a tourist expedition of the Titanic wreck, has been a consistent Republican donor over the years.”
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By Katelynn Richardson
.....Nonprofit news outlet ProPublica, which published multiple stories detailing Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ alleged ethics violations, has many of the same donors as multiple groups actively campaigning for Thomas to be investigated or to resign, according to tax documents reviewed by the Daily Caller News Foundation.
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Online Speech Platforms
By Drew Harwell
.....But the video and other newly obtained internal Twitter records show that, far from working to censor pro-Trump sentiment in the days before the Capitol riot, the company’s leaders were intent on leaving it up — despite internal warnings that trouble was brewing.
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The States
By Ray Stern
.....An Arizona judge rejected the arguments of two conservative groups that sued to stop a successful voter initiative requiring disclosure of campaign "dark money" and dismissed the case.
In the ruling released Thursday, Maricopa County Superior Court Judge M. Scott McCoy left only a narrow opening for the Center for Arizona Policy and Arizona Free Enterprise Club to convince him of their arguments, giving them until July 7 to file an amended complaint based on a long-shot legal theory.
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By Grant Stringer
.....In a repeat of years past, state lawmakers will wrap the legislative session without tightening Oregon’s loose campaign finance laws, falling short on a key pledge to do so.
House Speaker Dan Rayfield, D-Corvallis, convened a group of Democratic lawmakers this spring to hammer out limits on political spending. But Tony Lapiz, Rayfield’s legislative director, told a House committee June 8 that the legislators couldn’t agree on a proposal during that process.
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