X Sues to Block California Election Deepfake Law 'In Conflict' With First Amendment
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X sued to block a new California law that would require platforms to censor deepfakes about politicians in the lead up to an election

Summary

X, owned by Elon Musk, is suing to block California’s AB 2655, a law requiring social media platforms to remove “materially deceptive content” like deepfakes about politicians within 120 days of an election.

The lawsuit argues the law violates the First Amendment and Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, claiming it would lead to broad censorship of political speech to avoid enforcement costs.

A similar California law, AB 2839, was blocked last month for overreaching into constitutionally protected speech, including parody and satire.

AB 2655 is set to take effect in 2024.

  • cygnus
    32·
    1 month ago

    That’s great in theory. How are you going to force foreign actors to do it?

    “Russia, stop spamming Facebook with all that manipulative fake garbage”

    “Oh OK you only had to ask. Sorry about that”

    • Justin@lemmy.jlh.name
      6·
      1 month ago

      Tweak algorithms to limit reach of new accounts, don’t allow russians to buy ads or blue checkmarks, have a team of moderators that moderate based on known bad images, known bad IP addresses, known bad account creation patterns. If non-profit researchers are able to uncover botnets, there’s no reason why billion dollar companies can’t. It’s a cat and mouse game, but it’s not acceptable for these companies to put in 0 effort. These companies are better funded than the Internet Research Agency.