One of the issues that we have in the US is that there are (almost) no consequences for lying and hate speech. Politicians can (and do) make provably false stat

One of the issues that we have in the US is that there are (almost) no consequences for lying and hate speech. Politicians can (and do) make provably false statements with no consequence. I don't believe "free speech" is a license to outright lie; so I pay attention to topics like this because I think it's very important to figure out how to control outright lies and manipulation in popular media. And, a little closer to home, a few years back a person very close to me started reposting hate speech on Facebook. (It targeted a religious group, and was very reminiscent of Nazi anti-Jewish propaganda.) I don't know of a good way (in the US) to address that kind of hate speech, so it's really interesting to see how other countries try to reign it in.