{"id":187313,"date":"2026-02-14T05:05:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T10:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/ma-house-passes-bills-banning-ai-in-political-ads-deceptive-ads\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T06:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T11:10:08","slug":"ma-house-passes-bills-banning-ai-in-political-ads-deceptive-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/14\/ma-house-passes-bills-banning-ai-in-political-ads-deceptive-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"MA House passes bills banning AI in political ads, deceptive ads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capecodtimes.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2026\/02\/14\/ma-banning-ai-house-passes-bills-political-ads-deceptive-ads\/88658965007\/\">MA House passes bills banning AI in political ads, deceptive ads<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capecodtimes.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2026\/02\/14\/ma-banning-ai-house-passes-bills-political-ads-deceptive-ads\/88658965007\/\">https:\/\/www.capecodtimes.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2026\/02\/14\/ma-banning-ai-house-passes-bills-political-ads-deceptive-ads\/88658965007\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-14 05:05:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.capecodtimes.com\">www.capecodtimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Massachusetts House has passed a bill requiring any political advertisement that uses synthetic media, generated by AI, to include an alerting message stating &#8220;contains content generated by AI&#8221; at both the beginning and the end of the ad, and throughout the ad\u2019s duration.<\/li>\n<li>The bill aims to ensure voters are aware of AI-generated content, following similar efforts in other states, such as New Hampshire.<\/li>\n<li>The bill explicitly mentions penalties, including fines of $1,000, for any violations of the disclosure requirements.<\/li>\n<li>Another bill, also passed by the House, prohibits the distribution of &#8220;deceptive communications&#8221; by candidates or political groups within 90 days of an election, including misleading voter information and injuries to a candidate\u2019s reputation.<\/li>\n<li>The House bill allows victims to sue for deceptive communications and excludes media reporting, satire, or parody from its coverage. <\/li>\n<li>The bill was passed unanimously and will now move to the Senate for further consideration.<\/li>\n<li>The bills reflect the Massachusetts legislature&#8217;s focus on election-related reforms amidst broader efforts to ensure transparency and authenticity in political advertising practices.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MA House passes bills banning AI in political ads, deceptive ads https:\/\/www.capecodtimes.com\/story\/news\/politics\/2026\/02\/14\/ma-banning-ai-house-passes-bills-political-ads-deceptive-ads\/88658965007\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-14&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":187314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.capecodtimes.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/01\/22\/NPOH\/88299459007-mash-5.jpg?crop=4031,2268,x0,y604&width=3200&height=1801&format=pjpg&auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187313"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187313"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187313\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":187315,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187313\/revisions\/187315"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}