{
  "slug": "political-ad-authorization",
  "title": "I approve this message. Prove it.",
  "summary": "Political ads already require a named human to take responsibility. Nothing lets a voter check the claim. Here is what a verifiable approval would look like.",
  "lede": "American political advertising has required a named human to take personal responsibility for the message since 2002. The requirement assumed the voice saying the words belonged to the person claiming them. That assumption broke in January 2024, and the law has not caught up.",
  "date": "2026-10-01",
  "reading_time": "17 min read",
  "category": "Regulated",
  "tags": ["political deepfake", "robocall", "election integrity", "content provenance", "FCC", "disclosure"],
  "image": "https://cdn.twc.sh/images/igcache/Political%20Ad%20Authorization/1200_630/blog.jpg",
  "url": "/blog/political-ad-authorization.html",
  "wordcount": 4050,
  "related": ["c2pa-proves-the-camera", "public-comment-integrity", "detection-debt"],
  "schema": "Article"
}