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South Korea bans deepfake campaign videos in the 90 days before elections

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Source: The Korea Times: 129 deepfake election videos detectedAlso reported by Verfassungsblog

An amendment to South Korea’s Public Official Election Act (Article 82-8), enacted by the National Assembly in December 2023, took effect on 29 January 2024. It bans making or distributing AI-generated campaign content that is hard to tell from reality during the 90 days before an election, with penalties of up to seven years in prison or fines of up to 50 million won, and requires labels on such content outside that window. The National Election Commission found 129 violating deepfakes between 29 January and 16 February, ahead of the 10 April parliamentary election.

Why it matters

Campaigns, parties and voters in South Korea faced criminal penalties for deepfake campaign videos in the run-up to the April 2024 parliamentary election, with election officials policing the ban.

When
29 Jan 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0052
Who
National Election Commission, National Assembly of Korea

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from The Korea Times and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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WTA-N-2024-0052: “South Korea bans deepfake campaign videos in the 90 days before elections.” wheresthe.ai, 29 Jan 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/kr-election-deepfake-ban-2024-01/ (source: The Korea Times: 129 deepfake election videos detected).

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