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X Sues to Block California Election Deepfake Law ‘In Conflict’ With First Amendment
X sued to block a new California law that would require platforms to censor deepfakes about politicians in the lead up to an election
The company, owned by Elon Musk, claimed in its Thursday court filling the new law would trample the First Amendment, as well as Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which gives social platforms the broad legal immunity to moderate content however they see fit. The new law in question, Assembly Bill 2655, which has been dubbed the “Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024,” would require platforms like X to remove “inauthentic, fake, or false” content of politicians 120 days before an election. U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez agreed with Musk that the law, which prohibited the “distribution of materially deceptive audio or visual media of a candidate” within two months of an election, unless the post included a disclosure that the content was a deepfake, went too far.
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