New York Assemblymember Alex Bores called for broad adoption of cryptographic provenance standards (C2PA) to label media origin, arguing the method can make deepfakes a solvable content‑authenticity issue. The proposal emphasizes attaching tamper‑evident credentials to images, audio and video so consumers and platforms can verify provenance. Complementing that policy push, a deepfake researcher warned that 2025 advances pushed voice cloning past an "indistinguishable threshold" and forecast 2026 as the year synthetic media routinely fools non‑expert viewers. Together, the policy and technical warnings put pressure on campus research offices, journalism schools and IT security teams to accelerate provenance tools and curricula.