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There you have it folks.  Fox news says the Constitution protects them and they can lie all they want to their users and they can't be punished for it.  That's their argument to the lawsuit that was filed against them.

Full article:
https://truthout.org/articles/fox-news-defends-its-covid-lies/



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I  had a really good media law professor years ago. And two of my media law cases have been really exciting.

This case is going to be interesting. But notice that the First Amendment does not protect every kind of speech, however. We'll see where this case goes though, since it's about a pandemic.



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I  had a really good media law professor years ago. And two of my media law cases have been really exciting.

This case is going to be interesting. But notice that the First Amendment does not protect every kind of speech, however. We'll see where this case goes though, since it's about a pandemic.
Doesn't really matter to me if they win the case or lose it.  What matters is that they're openly admitting that they lie to their viewers.  What's also very sad is that their viewers don't even care that they're lied to.  They'd still believe Fox news even after all this.



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