The lawsuit, filed in federal court this week, targets a law that aims to combat harmful videos, images and audio that have been altered or created with artificial intelligence, which are known as

Elon Musk's social media platform X is suing California over a new state law targeting deceptive, AI-generated election content, claiming that it violates First Amendment free speech protections.

X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, is challenging a California law that requires social media companies to take down deceptive “deepfake” content. X filed a lawsuit in federal court in Sacramento Thursday that argues Assembly Bill 2655 is unconstitutional by violating free speech protections.