John Sarbanes

“ The term ‘nonpublic campaign material’ means, with respect to a candidate or a political committee, campaign material that is produced by the candidate or the committee or produced at the candidate or committee’s expense or request which is not distributed or made available to the general public or otherwise in the public domain, including polling and focus group data and opposition research, except that such term does not include material produced for purposes of consultations relating solely to the candidate’s or committee’s position on a legislative or policy matter.”. ”

“ Materially Deceptive Audio Or Visual Media Defined.—In this section, the term ‘materially deceptive audio or visual media’ means an image or an audio or video recording of a candidate’s appearance, speech, or conduct that has been intentionally manipulated in a manner such that both of the following conditions are met: “ (1) The image or audio or video recording would falsely appear to a reasonable person to be authentic. ”

“ IN GENERAL.—For purposes of subsection (a) (4) , the term ‘knowingly’ means actual knowledge, constructive knowledge, awareness of pertinent facts that would lead a reasonable person to conclude there is a substantial probability, or awareness of pertinent facts that would lead a reasonable person to conduct a reasonable inquiry to establish— “ (A) with respect to an activity described in subsection (a) (1) , that the contribution, donation, expenditure, independent expenditure, or disbursement is from a foreign national ”