Judge Mendez said the measure went too far, finding that the “the most glaring issue with AB 2839 is that the statute is not narrowly tailored because it captures even constitutional deepfakes and all ‘materially deceptive content.’”
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But Judge Mendez rejected that argument, too, since the statute has no severability clause and because he concluded that the Legislature "would not have adopted the remainder of AB 979 had it foreseen its partial invalidation.” Moreover, Judge Mendez said, removing those specific racial and ethnic categories “would adversely affect the coherence of the remaining provision.”
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