The Montana Public Policy Center, alongside the Montana First Amendment Society and 1776 Foundation, filed an amicus curiae brief in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in The Babylon Bee, LLC v. Rob Bonta, urging the court to affirm a lower court’s decision permanently blocking California Assembly Bill 2655 — a law that would have required major online platforms to remove or label AI-generated political content during election periods.
Our brief argues that AB 2655 is not a modest safeguard against deepfakes. It is a constitutionally dangerous regime that would give incumbent politicians a legal mechanism to silence criticism of themselves in the final weeks of a campaign. That is precisely the kind of government overreach the First Amendment was designed to prevent.
