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Elon Musk's Social Platform X has filed a lawsuit agains Minnesota, challenging a law banning political deepfakes

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Submitted ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨dwazou@lemm.ee⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.mprnews.org/episode/2025/04/24/elon-musk-social-media-platform-x-sues-minnesota-political-deepfake-ban

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  • Rooskie91@discuss.online ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “You guys aren’t gonna use AI for bad stuff, right?”

    Tech oligarchs: whaaaaaat no we actually want to be regulated because of how dangerous this technology is!! Also tech oligarchs:

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  • EndOfLine@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “The rules were that you guys weren’t going to fact-check.”

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    • Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Delivering that line with such glee like he thought he had some sort of high ground.

      Makes me sick.

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  • Archangel1313@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Remember when this stuff was called "the quiet part’, and it was considered bad when you said it out loud?

    Yeah…good times.

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    • militaryintelligence@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I member

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  • iAvicenna@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “what do you mean we can’t use fake misleading videos to fuck democracy?”

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    • Don_alForno@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      “The rules were you guys weren’t gonna fact check.”

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  • natecox@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    What a fucking chode.

    If you need it to be legal to deepfake to manipulate politics you’re the problem.

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  • Jiggle_Physics@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Well, this is a solid admission that they are going to use deep fakes to influence elections.

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    • zqps@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Noo we just want this specific instance of deregulation because… uh, it theoretically might help small businesses!

      Also why would you even care about anything other than short-term GDP increase. Are you some kind of communist?!?

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    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Are least it’s evidence that worry they might need to need to influence anther election.

      Silver lining…?

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  • Eldritch_Alyx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    How isn’t this immediately a red flag?

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    • 4grams@awful.systems ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      There are so many flags right now it’s just a sea of red undulations. Done by design, so that we don’t notice the death of democracy.

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      • JonEFive@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        They overwhelm everyone knowing that 80% of this shit is gonna get outlawed or overturned, but that 20% that gets through is gonna be huge for them.

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    • desktop_user@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      because one side is prioritizing democratic principles and the other is making an argument that could be related to the first amendment. Twitter absolutely isn’t doing this for any good reason, but the argument could be used for one.

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      • RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        If you have to tell deliberate lies to influence people then that isn’t democracy. That’s fascism. Fuck twisting the First Amendment into a tool of lies and corruption.

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  • raltoid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    This is what the right is doing, while the DNC is talking about censuring their own members for simply encouraging democrats to run even against their own apathetic incumbents.

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    • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You misspelled pathetic.

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  • phx@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Cool. Let’s go with criminal impersonation, defamation, and slander/libel instead them!

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  • ZeffSyde@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Can we join forces and spam X with a flood of Informative deep fakes of select individuals?

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    • suite403@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      You could, but it would just be limited reach. There is no way to fight back using his own platform beyond just not going there.

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      • GroundedGator@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Something that has been bothering me lately. Reasonable people who counter the toxic misinformation leaving the platform only allows the disease to grow and spread. But reality is they weren’t reaching the people that needed the dose of reality anyway. And then I realized that the algorithms have always been the disease, my feeds are my own echo chamber to drive engagement, just as theirs are. I’ve pretty much cut all social networks out. The only way to change minds is honest respectable conversation, and I am not a person to change anyone’s mind.

        We’re fucked

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    • fyzzlefry@retrolemmy.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Link me some and I’ll have fun with it.

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  • Bonesince1997@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    And the Fake News crowd goes wild! By the way, that’s conservatives and all of their media.

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  • BigMacHole@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Elon Musk, Republican President who is literally BANKROLLING THE ENTIRE REPUBLICAN PARTY, SUING because he can’t Create Fake News with AI, is PROOF that DEMOCRATS are the Fake News!

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    • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Musk is holding the Democrats smoking gun!

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  • obinice@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Why would they want to “influence elections”?

    Sounds shady.

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    • alphabethunter@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      It’s a huge part of the business model. Social Media is valuable for its data on people, and for its ability to manipulate and influence people.

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  • MCasq_qsaCJ_234@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Minnesota scraps that law and uses Elon’s deepfakes to claim he wants to destroy Medicare

    Elon calls for laws banning deepfakes

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  • hperrin@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “How will we win if we can’t cheat?”

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  • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    1000001469

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    • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Image

      He doesn’t even know you, and a ctrl-f of your profile shows you’ve commented on 3 Elon posts in the last 10 comments. He lives in your head rent-free

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      • PapaStevesy@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Maybe if you keep licking the shit out of his ass you might find a Tesla in there

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      • funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        you’ve commented twice in this thread?

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      • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        don’t know what’s more pathetic. the fact that you took the time to stalk me or that you tried to discourage me from making fun of a washed up drug addict.

        1000001472

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      • zarkanian@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        He lives in your head rent-free

        What a freeloader! He should pay up.

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      • untakenusername@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        just bc youve had a bad day doesn’t mean you need to spread that to everyone

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      • Inaminate_Carbon_Rod@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        “A ctrl+f of your profile”

        Holy stalker Batman!

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  • OsrsNeedsF2P@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    X’s lawsuit claims the law’s “requirements are so vague and unintelligible that social media platforms cannot understand what the statute permits and what it prohibits.”

    The with this argument is that social media platforms aren’t required to enforce it? www.sos.mn.gov/media/5626/deep-fake-overview.pdf

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    • tfowinder@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      IAs far as I read this correctly, the law prohibits creating such media but does not hold the websites accountable for publishing the media.

      It does indeed sound vague as to what the social media site should do.

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    • ToxicWaste@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      does anyone have the actual written law? it is hard to argue using summaries or even opinion pieces of musky boy.

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      • TheKracken@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        Here is an overview with a link to the statute at the bottom

        www.sos.mn.gov/media/5626/deep-fake-overview.pdf

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  • phoenixz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Next up: Elmo challenges laws that prohibit murder and child pornography, all in the name of a better world!

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    • andros_rex@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      He had that fetish roleplay account where he pretended to be his toddler…

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      • nomy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        The dude is convinced he can “win” by out-procreating everyone else, it’s obvious he has some very serious mental issues that need addressing but he’ll never actually do the work required to be better. He’s exactly like the Quiverfull people trying to out-populate their perceived enemies, assuming their descendents will follow their same credo.

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  • cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    can elon hurry up and die already

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    • Jankatarch@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Rich people live a lot longer than us.

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      • captain_oni@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        There’s a way to fix that, but we have been convinced we need to “stay civil” while the rich fuck us over.

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  • DaddleDew@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    “Wait a minute. Are we the baddies?”

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    • IsoKiero@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      I can place a pretty hefty bet that this thought has not visited Elmos head.

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      • jaybone@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

        I don’t think good and bad are concepts he is capable of understanding, like empathy.

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  • JonEFive@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    So is their position that deception via impersonation is free speech?

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    • madjo@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      Who can make a deep fake of der Elon professing his love for trans people? Wherein he states that he was wrong about the woke mind virus. That he wishes he had been born to a black family.

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  • ArchmageAzor@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Gee, I wonder why.

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  • Dragomus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    They did more than influence the past election, and have plans to do the same in the upcoming ones… so ofcourse any regulation against these plans must be taken away.

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  • Sam_Bass@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Something only a childish brat would even think to try

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  • skvlp@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Elon, go crawl into a hole and stay there for the rest of your life. Ok?

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  • Hathaway@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    My state will see you in court.

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  • LavaPlanet@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    But Does he have FAS, though? This Pic!

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  • Tugboater203@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    I don’t agree with it, but there’s a good chance they’ll win on the basis of the 1st Amendment.

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  • MyOpinion@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    If you can’t fake your way into power your standing in the way of MAGAts.

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