H.B. 3133 (2025), social media platform complaint system for explicit deep fake material

Tex. Bus. & Com. Code §§ 120.101, 120.1001, 120.102, 120.1015, 120.1025, 120.152

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In force since 1 September 2025.

An AI governance rule binding private bodies.

As of 6 September 2026.

What it requires

If you operate a social media platform, provide an easily accessible complaint system letting a user report explicit deep fake material, alongside illegal content and content-removal decisions.
Give clear, conspicuous, plain-language notice of that complaint system and how to use it.
On receiving a report of explicit deep fake material, immediately confirm to the user that you are aware of it, remove the reported content and any identical known copies, and provide the user a written status update within seven days.
If you determine reported content is explicit deep fake material, take measures to keep the same material from being posted again.
Failing these duties is a deceptive trade practice, actionable under the Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act.

What it reaches

How the hook was established

express

What makes it apply

User location, Place of effect

Obligation class

Governance

What it makes you log

Who may demand the log

Data subject

What the log must hold

Event time, Output reference, Decision basis

Logging duty

Section 120.101 requires the complaint system to let a user "track the status of the complaint," and Section 120.102(b)(3) ties the platform's seven-day written status update to the date the user submitted the report. Neither clause names a log, record, event recording, or audit trail, but tracking a complaint's status and computing a seven-day deadline from its submission date cannot be done without recording when the report was received and what has happened to it since.

Kind: Implicit
As of: 21 September 2026
Provision: Tex. Bus. & Com. Code §§ 120.101, 120.102(b)(3)
Trigger: content_generation

Who checks it

Audit expectation

none

What this law does

Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.

A social media platform must provide an easily accessible complaint system, with clear and conspicuous notice of it, letting a user report explicit deep fake material (deep fake material, meaning AI-altered or AI-created visual material made with intent to deceive, that depicts sexual conduct or exposes intimate parts).

On receiving such a report the platform must immediately confirm awareness to the user, remove the reported content and any identical known copies, and provide a status update within seven days; if the platform determines the content is not explicit deep fake material it may restore it, and if it determines the content is explicit deep fake material it must take measures to prevent the same material from being reposted.

A violation is a deceptive trade practice actionable under the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices-Consumer Protection Act. This chapter reaches only a social media platform with more than 50 million active United States users in a calendar month, so it binds a small number of the largest commercial platforms rather than every online service.

When LexLint raises it

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Read the law

official codified text, Texas Constitution and Statutes, Texas Legislative Council

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