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California signs three election deepfake laws, and a court blocks one within weeks

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Source: KTVU: Gov. Newsom signs bills at Dreamforce to combat deepfake election contentAlso reported by TechCrunch, Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse: Kohls v. Bonta order of 2 Oct 2024

Governor Gavin Newsom signed three bills on 17 September 2024: AB 2655 requires large online platforms to remove or label deceptive AI-altered content about candidates and officials before elections, AB 2839 lets candidates and officials sue over materially deceptive election deepfakes and took effect at once as an urgency measure, and AB 2355 requires disclosure on political ads using AI-generated or altered content. On 2 October 2024 the US District Court for the Eastern District of California issued a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of AB 2839 in Kohls v. Bonta.

Why it matters

Platforms and political advertisers in California took on deepfake removal, labelling and disclosure duties, while the injunction showed state election deepfake laws can fail free-speech challenges.

When
17 Sep 2024
ID
WTA-N-2024-0064
Who
California Legislature; Gavin Newsom

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from KTVU and the reporting credited above. We could not open the primary document, so it is marked Reported. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

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Next stop on this Storyline: What happened nextCalifornia requires large AI providers to label generated media and offer a detection tool

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WTA-N-2024-0064: “California signs three election deepfake laws, and a court blocks one within weeks.” wheresthe.ai, 17 Sep 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-ca-election-deepfake-laws-2024-09/ (source: KTVU: Gov. Newsom signs bills at Dreamforce to combat deepfake election content).

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