Minnesota Officials Defend Political Deepfake Law From Speech Challenge

( June 3, 2025, 9:05 AM EDT) -- MINNEAPOLIS — A law creating civil and criminal penalties for political deepfakes applies only where a reasonable viewer would be deceived and does not apply to a man’s artificial intelligence-created parody videos, two elected officials tell the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in defending a judge’s decision not to enjoin the law....