Gov. Gavin Newsom’s administration is “confident” a new California law will be upheld after a federal judge blocked the law from being enforced in a preliminary ruling on Oct. 2, a spokesperson for Newsom’s office told The Epoch Times.
U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California issued a preliminary injunction, blocking the law targeting deepfake content related to elections and candidates.
Newsom signed Assembly Bill 2839 on Sept. 17, prohibiting the distribution of deceptive election-based content “with malice” within 120 days before an election and, in specified cases, 60 days after.
The law also authorized recipients and subjects of deepfake communications created by artificial intelligence to file lawsuits against the distributor….