Two state lawmakers running in Republican primary elections have said that hundreds of mailers sent out depicting them waving a pride flag and wearing a button with pronouns on it violate a Montana law prohibiting the use of artificial intelligence to produce “deepfakes” in campaign materials.
But a lawsuit filed in federal district court on Wednesday says the mailers are protected under free speech provisions of the First Amendment, and Montana’s law should be struck from the books.
“Montana legislators are the biggest crybabies in the nation,” said Matthew Monforton, a Bozeman attorney who filed the federal lawsuit on behalf
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