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#9 Dark Reading general May 18, 2026 at 01:00 UTC

Can Laws Stop Deepfakes? South Korea Aims to Find Out

By Alexander Culafi

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South Korea's upcoming local elections next month will serve as a live test of the country's deepfake regulations, which impose criminal penalties for AI-generated electoral disinformation. The outcome will offer policy practitioners early empirical data on whether legislative controls can meaningfully curb deepfake influence operations during active election cycles.

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