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Ordonnance n°0011/PR/2026, contenus interdits générés par intelligence artificielle

Ordonnance n°0011/PR/2026, art. 32-33 (contenus IA interdits), du 26 février 2026 portant réglementation de l'usage des réseaux sociaux

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In force 5 months, effective 8 April 2026.

An AI prohibited practices rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 4 September 2026.

What it requires

  • Do not circulate a realistic deepfake depicting an identifiable person in a sexual situation without their express consent.
  • Do not circulate a deepfake of a public or private figure attributing false statements or conduct to them capable of causing serious harm to public order, national security, or personal dignity.
  • Do not circulate AI-generated content depicting a sexual situation involving a minor, by any technical method.
  • Do not imitate a Gabonese state institution's visual or audio identity for disinformation purposes.

Who enforces it

Enforcement body

Haute Autorité de la Communication (HAC); juge des référés (emergency-relief judge)

What it reaches

Obligation class

Prohibition, Content labelling

What this law does

Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.

Ordonnance n°0011/PR/2026 bans outright, whatever their place of creation, four categories of AI-generated content circulated on a social network or digital platform in Gabon: a realistic deepfake depicting an identifiable person in a sexual situation without their express consent, a deepfake of a public or private figure attributing false statements or conduct to them capable of causing serious harm to public order, national security, or personal dignity, a representation of a sexual situation involving a minor by any technical method, and an imitation of a Gabonese state institution's visual or audio identity for disinformation.

Content falling into these categories can be referred immediately to the emergency-relief judge, whose territorial competence is both domestic and extraterritorial and who may order a temporary suspension of an account or content, a targeted de-referencing, publication of a correction, or the forced insertion of an origin marking on the AI-generated content.

An identifiable person depicted without consent in AI-generated content published on a social network or platform separately has a right to report it and have the editor or host remove it within twenty-four hours of the report.

When LexLint raises it

  • generates_content
  • operates_social_platform
  • serves_minors

Read the law

Ordonnance n°0011/PR/2026 du 26 février 2026 portant réglementation de l'usage des réseaux sociaux via les plateformes numériques en…
Ordonnance n°0011/PR/2026 du 26 février 2026 portant réglementation de l'usage des réseaux sociaux via les plateformes numériques en République Gabonaise, Journal Officiel de la République Gabonaise n°110 du 8 avril 2026

archived copyRead from a public archive copy, not the publisher directly. The publisher does not serve this page to automated readers, so a direct fetch was not an option here; how we access sources. Archived 2026. Publisher's page: https://journal-officiel.ga/22404-0011-pr-2026-/

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