Conservative satire site, The Babylon Bee, has filed a lawsuit against the state of California after Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a series of “deep fake ” laws targeting outlets publishing parody.”
According to a report from The Daily Wire, the complaint was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California and notes that Newsom tweeted that a parody video of Kamala Harris should be “illegal.”
“The legislature heard the call and passed two laws that forbid political expression under the label of ‘materially deceptive content,’” the lawsuit asserts.
According to the complaint, one of California’s new laws will require social media platforms to notify the state with “reports about user posts with ‘materially deceptive content’ and then remove or label them.”
Newsom argued that the state’s laws focus on AI-generated content that could “undermine the public’s trust through disinformation.”
However, the new law also requires satire and parody content to be clearly labeled or removed completely.
