Not a lawyer, but my understanding is that (broadly speaking) fraud and other malicious deception are not considered to be protected by the first amendment. Th

Not a lawyer, but my understanding is that (broadly speaking) fraud and other malicious deception are not considered to be protected by the first amendment. There are some complications re. your example in that political speech has more protections. https://www.freedomforum.org/is-lying-protected-first-amendment/ https://www.freedomforum.org/is-lying-protected-first-amendm...