Lawsuit Against Fox Is Shaping Up to Be a Major First Amendment Case - The New York Times - 0 views
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The case threatens a huge financial and reputational blow to Fox, by far the most powerful conservative media company in the country. But legal scholars say it also has the potential to deliver a powerful verdict on the kind of pervasive and pernicious falsehoods — and the people who spread them — that are undermining the country’s faith in democracy.
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“We’re litigating history in a way: What is historical truth?” said Lee Levine, a noted First Amendment lawyer
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“Here you’re taking very recent current events and going through a process which, at the end, is potentially going to declare what the correct version of history is.”
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