California’s new content moderation bills could ruin online political satire forever, legal experts say

California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed a pair of content moderation bills last week .

The bills would allow Californians to sue creators and platforms for making or hosting “materially deceptive” election content on the internet.

One potential consequence of the legislation is it could ruin satire and political comedy.

Mr. Reagan told the Daily Caller the parody label was just a precaution as the video was “obviously a joke” The bill’s supporters say that widespread access to AI tools makes it too easy for bad actors to interfere with elections.

Experts argue the laws are overreaching, and that there are already laws in place to combat potential crimes.

He argued the solution to deepfakes and manipulated content is more free speech, not less. “That’s counter speech in action that shows that we can still identify and expose falsehoods when they arise. And as long as counter speech can still be an effective remedy, we shouldn’t, the government shouldn’t be rushing headlong into regulation that can do collateral damage to America ’s First Amendment rights,” Terr concluded..