Do You Really Want the President to Decide What's True or Not True?

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i feel a little bit of consternation that there's a sense that, boy, it sure would be nice if the us. Government would control people's speech. But given that they can't, let's get facebook to do it. And i absolutely push back ins the idea that anyone should be doing the sort of power likedo we want the trump administration deciding what's true or not true? Of course, not. Thanks to the first amendment, that will never, sort of be the case.

Ben and James discuss the origins of the First Amendment, what a culture of free expression means, and Facebook’s ad policy.

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Rep. Ocasio-Cortez questions Mark Zuckerberg on when Facebook will fact check — YouTube
Jon Gertner: The Very, Very Personal Is the Political — The New York Times Magazine
United States v. Alvarez — Casetext
Julia Angwin and Terry Parris Jr.: Facebook Lets Advertisers Exclude Users by Race — ProPublica