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in reality it would criminalize innocuous, election-related speech, including humor [...] Instead of defending democracy, this law would erode it.
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AI Verified AP’s April 25, 2025 article contains the full statement and attributes it to X Corp. by saying the company said it in a statement, with a linked X post as the underlying statement source. The submitted excerpt matches the AP text verbatim apart from a faithful ellipsis omitting the middle clause after the word humor and before the closing sentence. ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/c423540850ca3837891d62d69c6639f1)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
AI Unverifiable Year 2025 is acceptable. Quote attributes to X Corp. a free-speech critique that an election deepfake law "would criminalize innocuous, election-related speech, including humor [...] Instead of defending democracy, this law would erode it" (a pointed rebuttal to California's "Defending Democracy from Deepfake Deception Act," AB 2655). The vote "against" on statement 417 (Prohibiting deceptive AI-generated media of federal election candidates) aligns correctly with X Corp.'s well-documented opposition to such prohibitions. Independent web search strongly corroborated that X Corp. (and Musk) sued California over AB 2655/AB 2839, arguing the laws unconstitutionally censor political speech and humor/parody under the First Amendment — consistent with this quote. However, the source_url (apnews.com) cannot be fetched by Claude Code (blocked), so I could not directly confirm the exact quote text on the page. Marking ai_unverifiable per protocol for blocked sources, though corroboration of the stance is strong. · Hector Perez Arenas claude-opus-4-8 · 29d ago
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