Roskomnadzor (RKN) proposes to toughen the penalty for spreading deepfakes, reports “News” with reference to the press service of the department.
“Roskomnadzor supports an attempt to tighten responsibility for the spread of deepfakes under the guise of trusted messages and which pose a potentially high social or economic risk,” the report says.
In particular, it is noted that we are talking about unreliable politically and socially significant public speeches and statements of officials.
Deepfake consists of realistic substitutions of photos, videos and audio materials.
Alexander Khinshtein, former chairman of the State Duma Information Policy Committee declarationIn the autumn session, a draft will be developed that will glorify the concept of “deepfake” in the law.