States' efforts to regulate election deepfakes keep colliding with the First Amendment.
On Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Susan Watters issued a preliminary injunction preventing Montana from enforcing a 2025 law that restricts AI-generated political advertisements. The law had been challenged by Accountability in State Government, a group run the former state lawmaker Dan Bartel; the organization had sent mailouts containing doctored images of political figures holding pride flags and wearing pronoun badges.
