Cyberlaw / Internet, Election and Voting Law, First Amendment
Counterfeit Campaign Speech
October 16, 2018
On September 28th, California Governor Jerry Brown signed a new law that forbids the surreptitious use of bots to, among other things, influence Californians’ votes in an election. The law is a disclosure rule: the bot may speak, but it must clearly identify itself as nonhuman. Critics have suggested that California’s new law is vague…