“X sues to stop Minnesota election misinformation law”

The complaint is here. The Courthouse News Service reports here:

The social media company X Corp., formerly Twitter, filed a lawsuit Wednesday in the Federal District of Minnesota against Attorney General Keith Ellison, alleging a state statute intended to take on election misinformation is unconstitutional. 

The statute, passed by the state’s legislature in 2023, prohibits the dissemination of election-related content that is a deepfake. 

X Corp., which is owned by Tesla CEO and government bureaucrat Elon Musk, seeks a ruling to declare the law unconstitutional and to bar Minnesota prosecutors from enforcing it. 

The suit, signed by Erick Kaardal of Mohrman Kaardal, a Minnesota-based law firm, alleges the law violates the civil rights of X and other social media platforms under the First and 14th Amendments of the United States Constitution. 

“Its requirements are so vague and unintelligible that social media platforms cannot understand what the statute permits and what it prohibits, which will lead to blanket censorship, including of fully protected, core political speech,” Kaardal wrote in the complaint.

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