1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Deepfakes Report Act of 2019 . 2. Definitions In this Act: (1) Digital content forgery The term digital content forgery means the use of emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques, to fabricate or manipulate audio, visual, or text content with the intent to mislead. (2) Secretary The term Secretary means the Secretary of Homeland Security. 3. Reports on digital content forgery technology (a) In general Not later than 200 days after the date of enactment of this Act and every 18 months thereafter, the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary for Science and Technology, shall produce a report on the state of digital content forgery technology. (b) Contents Each report produced under subsection (a) shall include— (1) an assessment of the underlying technologies used to create or propagate digital content forgeries, including the evolution of such technologies; (2) a description of the types of digital content forgeries, including use— (A) by foreign or domestic sources; and (B) in cyber attacks, pornography, and media; (3) an assessment of how foreign governments, and the proxies and networks thereof, use, or could use, digital content forgeries to harm national security; (4) an assessment of how non-governmental entities in the United States, use, or could use, digital content forgeries; (5) an assessment of the uses, applications, dangers, and benefits of deep learning technologies used to generate high fidelity artificial content of events that did not occur; (6) an analysis of the methods used to determine whether content is genuinely created by a human or through digital content forgery technology, including an assessment of any effective heuristics used to make such a determination; (7) a description of the technological counter-measures that are, or could be, used to address concerns with digital content forgery technology