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Mississippi
SB 2577 (2024), Wrongful Dissemination of Digitizations (Election Deepfakes)
Miss. Code Ann. Title 97, Ch. 13 (new section created by SB 2577, 2024 Regular Session)
In force since .
An AI transparency rule binding public and private bodies.
- Obligation class
- Prohibition, Content labelling
- Audit expectation
- none
- Setting the rule reaches
- Elections
What it requires
- Do not disseminate, or contract to disseminate, an image or audio altered or created using AI or similar technology (a digitization) within 90 days of an election if you know or should know it is a digitization, it lacks the depicted person's consent, and it is disseminated with intent to injure a candidate, influence the election result, or deter voting.
- Carrying a clear and prominent disclosure throughout the digitization that the depicted person did not actually engage in the shown speech or conduct is a defense to prosecution.
- An interactive computer service provider as defined in 47 U.S.C. 230(f), most broadcasters carrying a bona fide news report, and content that is satire or parody are excluded from liability.
These lines are LexLint's reading of the law's text.
In the frameworks
- NIST AI RMF
- MAP 3.3Targeted application scope is specified and documented based on the system’s capability, established context, and AI system categorization.
- NIST AI 600-1
- GAI-RISK-08Information Integrity
- GAI-RISK-11Obscene, Degrading, and/or Abusive Content
- MIT mitigations Draft
- FINOS AIGF
- AIR-PREV-005System Acceptance Testing
- ETSI EN 304 223
Our reading of where this law's duties sit in each framework. It never says that running a control meets the law. How we read a framework against the law
Identifiers refer to ETSI EN 304 223 V2.1.1 (2025-12), © ETSI 2025, all rights reserved. ETSI owns the standard; no ETSI text (titles or sentences) is reproduced here. The standard is free to download from ETSI.
If you get it wrong
Criminal exposureYes
Criminal exposure note
A violation committed with intent to incite or cause violence or bodily harm, to deter voting, or a second or subsequent violation within five years, is punishable by up to five years imprisonment or a fine of up to $10,000, or both. Any other violation is punishable by up to one year imprisonment or a fine of up to $5,000, or both.
Penalty structure
Two tiers: an aggravated or repeat violation carries a fine of up to $10,000; any other violation carries a fine of up to $5,000. Both tiers also carry imprisonment (up to five years for the aggravated tier, up to one year otherwise).
- Rule
- Fixed only
- As of
- Minimum
- 5,000
- Currency
- USD
- Fixed cap
- 10,000
What it makes you log
Logging duty
This section creates criminal penalties, and a private right to injunctive relief, for wrongfully disseminating an election deepfake within ninety days of an election; it imposes no duty on anyone to keep logs or records of a digitization or of its dissemination, and it names no one who may demand such a record.
- Kind
- None
- As of
What this law does
Makes it a crime to disseminate, or contract to disseminate, a digitization, defined to include an image or audio altered or created using software, machine learning, artificial intelligence or other computer-generated or technological means (a deepfake), within ninety days of an election, without the depicted individual's consent, and with intent to injure a candidate, influence the election result, or deter voting.
A first violation is a misdemeanor; a violation committed with intent to incite violence or bodily harm, to deter voting, or a second or subsequent violation within five years is a more serious offense. Carrying a clear and prominent disclosure throughout the digitization that the depicted individual did not actually engage in the shown speech or conduct is a defense to prosecution. Signed by the Governor .
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