A court in Chandigarh, India, orders Facebook to suspend three pages spreading AI-forged political videos.
印度昌迪加尔法院因 AI 伪造政治视频，下令 Facebook 暂停三个页面整页访问，旁遮普选举前第三起同类命令（Bar and Bench）
On October 5, a civil court in Chandigarh, India, issued an ex parte interim injunction requiring three Facebook pages (Thanedar Uncle, Kachi Laan, Batale Di Rajneeti) to stop disseminating AI-generated videos targeting Amandeep Kumar, a Punjab Congress politician, and to immediately close public access or suspend the three pages until the next hearing on October 22. Kumar filed a defamation suit, claiming these deepfake videos used his face and likeness without consent, portraying him as a drug trafficker, antisocial element, intermediary in rape cases, and more. Some videos had approximately 178,000, 180,000, and 47,800 views, and the content favored Sherry Kalsi, the incumbent Aam Aadmi Party MLA for the Batala constituency. The court examined a USB drive containing the videos and independently verified links, concluding that the pages had political motives, went beyond healthy public criticism, and could harm democracy and the process of forming public consensus.