Weaponized Disinformation....Fox, Breitbart, Infowars, Sinclair, And many others

[pbmus]

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[shraby]

1. By throwing real facts backed up by proof out there fast and furious. MSNBC has been doing

that along with debunking the right wing junk news.

[moondust]

2. Does the First Amendment allow

someone to deliberately mislead the public?

Should it?

[Archae]

4. Of course they can. Except for libel and slander.

And public figures need to prove malice if they are libeled or slandered.

[Volaris]

5. Yes. But there's nothing that says you can't legally require calling a spade a spade.

I'd very much like to see a law that says that if you're gonna call it news (in any form), it cannot turn a monetary profit for the parent company. Pay hannity or rush their millions form the ad buys and the ratings or whatever, but the owning company cannot make a buck. And if NOT that, it has to be announced before and after every commercial break that this is ENTERTAINMENT ONLY.
3 strikes and you get your license pulled and fuck you very much.

Rush and hannity and jones would be off the air in a month.

[Trek4Truth]

3. AKA Lies. nt