The company also finds other requirements of the law burdensome, such as the need to establish channels for reporting political deepfakes and a mechanism for candidates and officials to seek injunctive relief if a platform fails to comply with the act. This lawsuit follows a recent temporary block by a federal judge on a related California law banning deceptive online campaign ads.
Key takeaways:
- Elon Musk’s social media company, X, has sued to block California law AB 2655, which mandates large online platforms to remove or label AI deepfakes related to elections.
- X argues that the law, also known as the “Defending Democracy From Deepfake Deception Act of 2024,” will lead to widespread censorship of political speech.
- AB 2655 also imposes other requirements on platforms that X finds burdensome, such as establishing channels to report political deepfakes and a mechanism to allow candidates and elected officials to seek injunctive relief if a platform isn’t complying with the act.
- The lawsuit was filed weeks after a federal judge temporarily blocked a related California deepfakes law to ban deceptive campaign ads online.