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Reason
Eugene Volokh

Kamala Harris, Satire, and Where the Wild Things Are

[1.] California recently enacted a new law banning election-related "materially deceptive content" 120 days before and 60 days after an election. "Materially deceptive content" is defined as

audio or visual media that is intentionally digitally created or [significantly] modified, which includes, but is not limited to, deepfakes, such that the content would falsely appear to a reasonable person to be an authentic record of the content depicted in the media.

One question is: How will this affect satirical videos mocking candidates, such as this one:

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