Daily Montanan wrote about HLLI’s free speech victory in Accountability in State Government and Dan Bartel v. Austin Knudsen. 

A federal judge ruled in favor of a political action committee accused of breaking a new election law regulating the use of AI deepfakes this week. U.S. District Judge Susan Watters said that the new Montana law violates the First Amendment and infringes on the most protected speech of all – political speech.

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“This is an important victory for political speech and the First Amendment,” said Adam Schulman, a senior attorney at the law institute. “The government cannot censor speech just because that speech uses AI technology.”

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