Free Speech and False Speech Political Deception and Its Legal Limits (Or Lack Thereof) /

• Main Author: Spicer, Robert N. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Communication.; Political communication.; Constitutional law.; United States-Politics and government.; United States-Study and teaching.; Media and Communication.; Political Communication.; Constitutional Law.; US Politics.; American Culture.

This book examines the history of the legal discourse around political falsehood and its future in the wake of the 2012 US Supreme Court decision in US v. Alvarez through communication law, political philosophy, and communication theory perspectives. As US v. Alvarez confirmed First Amendment protec...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Lies, Damn Lies, Alternative Facts, Fake News, Propaganda, Pinocchios, Pants on Fire, Disinformation, Misinformation, Post-Truth, Data, and Statistics
• 2. Conduct, Affiliation, and Messages: A Typology of Statutes Addressing Political Deception
• 3. The Judicial Discourse in the Handling of Political Misinformation (and Disinformation)
• 4. Three Recent Cases: Alvarez, 281 CARE, and SBAL
• 5. Conclusion: Two Paths in the Legal Woods.