How will this victory determine use/abuse of social media as an smear operation/rumors campaign mechanism? Case in point: There are multiple twitter threads go

How will this victory determine use/abuse of social media as an smear operation/rumors campaign mechanism? Case in point: There are multiple twitter threads going around politicians saying things, but either recanting those later or being taken out of context. A tweet doesn't do the justice. If Lessig wins it might help to lay the groundwork for some more nuanced digital ethics.