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Filtering Fake News through a Lens of Supreme Court Observations and Adages
UF Law Faculty Publications
  • Clay Calvert, University of Florida Levin College of Law
  • Austin Vining
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2018
OCLC FAST subject heading
Freedom of the press
Disciplines
Abstract

This Essay analyzes multiple issues affecting fake news. It does so through a prism of seven observations by the U.S. Supreme Court concerning the First Amendment, free speech, and other matters. The Court's wisdom in these quotations provides propitious points of entree for exploring how to address and remedy problems many fear fake news causes. The Essay concludes that because fake news will never be eradicated from the metaphorical marketplace of ideas, greater effort must be spent making real news - fake news's constructive flipside - more appetizing to the public.

Citation Information
Clay Calvert & Austin Vining, Filtering Fake News through a Lens of Supreme Court Observations and Adages,16 First Amend. L. Rev. 153 (2018)