X Corp. sues California over online election deception law

As another part of a handful of lawsuits challenging new California laws that target misinformation online, X Corp. sued the California attorney general and secretary of state on Thursday over a new law requiring it to police certain deceptive content about elections.

X Corp. says Assembly Bill 2655 — called the Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act of 2024 — requires it to create a reporting system enabling the removal and alteration of “materially deceptive content” about political candidates, elections officials and elected officers from its platform, a move the social media giant called a First Amendment violation.

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