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Regulate AI-generated content in states
Regulate AI-generated content in states
Grassroots

Platform Policy Collaboration

Work with social media and tech platforms to identify and label or remove harmful AI-generated content.

Organize civil society pressure and collaboration with major platforms so election deepfakes are labeled, throttled, or removed quickly when they spread. Focus on getting policies off paper and into consistent enforcement—across the major conduits named here—while acknowledging that voluntary rules are uneven and need to complement enforceable state standards.

Why this works

  • The major conduits for deepfakes are online platforms (Facebook, Twitter/X, YouTube, TikTok).
  • If they implement strict policies – e.g.
  • automatically labeling AI-generated media or banning certain deepfakes – it can achieve much of the regulatory goal quickly.
  • Civil society can pressure platforms (and indeed Google’s ad policy change shows they’re responsive to public pressure and fear of regulation).
  • This strategy can also involve developing better deepfake detection tools in partnership with platforms and deploying them widely.

Common Cause

Advocacy
commoncause.org

Building a stronger democracy and accountable government

Common Cause is a grassroots organization founded in 1970 to uphold the core values of American democracy. It works to create an open, honest, and accountable government by tackling issues like ethics in politics, money in elections, voting rights, and gerrymandering::. With chapters in many states, Common Cause mobilizes citizens, advocates for reforms at all levels of government, and has been instrumental in passing transparency and ethics laws.

Mechanism

About Grassroots

How Common Cause uses funding

  1. Recruit and align a coalition around specific platform policy asks and accountability expectations.
  2. Plan actions and outreach that target platform decision-makers and key enforcement moments.
  3. Sustain momentum with a predictable cadence of updates, pressure, and coordination across partners.
  4. Build coalitions with election officials, watchdogs, and media so reports and debunks travel quickly.
  5. Convert pressure into outcomes: policy changes, enforcement commitments, and usable rapid-response channels.
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Milestones

Checkpoints and the expected timing for each step

  1. 1

    Coalition + platform asks aligned

    0–30 days

    A shared ask list and escalation process are agreed across partners.

  2. 2

    Outreach and pressure campaign launched

    1–3 months

    Platform meetings and coordinated public pressure are in motion.

  3. 3

    Policy and enforcement changes secured

    3–6 months

    Platforms announce updates and implement enforcement workflows tied to elections.

  4. 4

    Transparency and gap tracking sustained

    Ongoing

    Public reporting shows what changed and where enforcement still fails.

Risks, trade-offs & sources

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