The new law requires large online platforms to remove or label deceptive election content that's been digitally altered or created.

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.

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

X’s owner Elon Musk had lashed out against the anti-deepfakes law and accused California’s Democratic governor of trying to make “parody illegal.”

As another part of a handful of lawsuits challenging new California laws that target misinformation online, X Corp. sued the California attorney general and secretary of state on Thursday over a new law requiring it to police certain deceptive content about elections.