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Bill C-34, Safe Social Media Act (synthetic content labelling and chatbot transparency)

Bill C-34 An Act to enact the Digital Safety Act and the Digital Safety Commission of Canada Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts, 45th Parliament, 1st Session, ss. 37, 53(a)

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Proposed: draft date not recorded.

An AI transparency rule binding private bodies.

As of 2 September 2026.

What it requires

  • Not yet in force. If enacted as proposed, would require labelling synthetic content that meets regulatory criteria on a regulated social media service.
  • Would require a regulated AI chatbot service to implement measures adequate to mitigate the risk of the chatbot posing as a human being or otherwise being deceptive about being an artificial intelligence system.

What this law does

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Would require operators of regulated social media services to implement adequate measures to label, as synthetic content, any synthetic content accessible on the service that meets criteria set by regulation.

Separately, operators of regulated AI chatbot services would be required to implement measures adequate to mitigate the risk of the chatbot posing as a human being in a manner likely to lead a user to mistake it for one, or otherwise being deceptive about being an artificial intelligence system. Introduced June 10, 2026 and at second reading in the House of Commons as of this writing; not yet in force. The same bill also sets a minors' account-access threshold researched separately under the age-verification topic.

When LexLint raises it

  • deploys_chatbot
  • operates_social_platform
  • generates_content
  • serves_minors

Read the law

official bill text, first reading, Parliament of Canada

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