Laws against false political speech have been curtailed. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12180 https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/

Laws against false political speech have been curtailed. https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12180 https://crsreports.congress.gov/product/pdf/IF/IF12180 The former legal counsel for FOX argued internally that the First Amendment protected the network for spreading lies about election fraud even the employees privately thought there was no election fraud. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2023-08-11/fox-corp-general-counsel-viet-dihn-is-leaving-the-company https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/20... In other words, there are little repercussions for the blatant political lies and as a result people don’t know what to believe. I have a member of family who used horse dewormer on himself when he got Covid. He also was not vaccinated because he believed it would alter his DNA. I used to make fun of dumb hicks and now I realize I am part of a family of dumb hicks.