#MEMEAct MEME Act: What is it and how could it affect the internet as we know it?

In 2025, the US Congress proposed the MEME Act (Mitigating Explicit Meme Exploitation), a controversial law aimed at regulating visual content distributed on social platforms, especially memes. Officially, the purpose of the act is to combat deepfakes, digital harassment, and manipulative image-based content, but critics warn that it could limit online freedom of expression.

What the law stipulates:

• Platforms will be required to automatically detect and label “deceptively modified” memes.

• Content creators who repeatedly violate the law may be sanctioned or even banned from platforms.

• Mandatory archiving of AI-generated content for later verification is imposed.