The only decent option to fight propaganda is through the education system. The incoming generations should be armed with sharp critical thinking skills, common sense, and empathy (this one is especially important). There needs to be more demonstrative sessions in classrooms where students actively participate in distinguishing fake content from real ones (and specifically how they can deem it to be fake).
My kid's public school does an ok job at teaching the above skills on a surface level, but it comes off as an afterthought as opposed to a primary lesson. I wish they would take it to a more granular level and make it a primary aspect of education.
I always try to go to primary sources, but even that breaks down with a sufficiently advanced deepfake. What happens in a few years when there is no way for a human to distinguish deepfake from authentic?
I don't see how they expect this to get past the courts.
Fines of $100,000 are trivial[1] on this scale -- and most fines are smaller than that. Even then, many just fail to pay them[2].
It's hard to know how much these things actually move the polls. But politics is both a game of inches and a game of winner-take-all: even a tiny nudge that puts you over the bar has enormous payoffs worth literally billions. So even if the courts managed to uphold this, nobody who would resort to this technique would be affected.
[1] https://www.dispatch.com/news/20190913/fec-fines-ohio-gop-10...
[2] https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/10/30/scofflaw-...
Putin is running a total war against the west using propaganda as a primary weapon. Tens of thousands of people are putting up false websites and comments. They will not stop because of this law.
