The Glasgow Courier (Montana) 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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Watters ruled in favor of Bartel and the PAC, saying that because the law treats “identically deceptive media differently based solely on whether its message is weaponized or deployed to elevate a candidate” that the plaintiffs are likely to succeed in establishing that it constitutes “viewpoint-based” discrimination.
She went on to write that it was “presumptively unconstitutional.”
Read more at the Glasgow Courier.
