LIABILITY FOR ONLINE IMPERSONATION; EXCEPTION.

Tex. CIV. PRAC. & REM Code § 98C.004.
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(a) Except as provided by Subsection (b), a person is liable to another person injured by the person's online impersonation if: (1) the person knowingly and with the intent to harm, defraud, intimidate, or threaten the injured person used the online impersonation to create a false identity; and (2) the online impersonation is, to a reasonable person, virtually indistinguishable from an actual person. (b) A person is not liable for an online impersonation of which a purpose is satire or parody. Added by Acts 2025, 89th Leg., R.S., Ch. 927 (H.B. 783 ), Sec. 1, eff. September 1, 2025.
Source: TX Statutes (Official Site)URL: https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Fetched: 6/28/2026

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