Overview

• The Minnesota senator detailed in a New York Times essay that an AI-edited clip from a July 30 Judiciary subcommittee hearing falsely depicted her making vulgar remarks about Sydney Sweeney and Democrats.
• Klobuchar said X declined to remove or label the fake and suggested she seek a Community Note, while TikTok removed it and Meta applied an AI-manipulated label.
• She urged passage of her NO FAKES Act to let people demand removal of unauthorized deepfakes of their voice and likeness, with stated exceptions for protected speech.
• The Daily Caller criticized her push as overreach that could collide with First Amendment parody protections.
• The New York Post reported the video drew more than a million views and that the proposal has bipartisan backers, with Klobuchar linking it to recent federal action against nonconsensual intimate deepfakes.