An FDA panel voted Friday to endorse the Johnson & Johnson single dose vaccination, meanwhile the House is expected to push President Biden's $1.9 trillion COVID relief bill through.
More importantly, many kinds of misinformation are protected speech, which cannot be banned even in a non-discriminatory way. As Robby Soave notes,
As the words misinformation and disinformation come to refer not to just clear falsehoods but to information that is contentious, disputed, or highly partisan but nevertheless true, it is important to reject the idea that there is a fake news exception to the First Amendment. If a statement is
libelous, then an outlet can be sued for printing it. If it contains a call to violence, platforms may have some legal responsibility to take action against it. But the First Amendment s protections are extremely robust, and the government may not criminalize the dissemination of information that is merely wrong or uninformed. Such a move would imperil not just right-wing news channels, but all speech that criticizes the government.
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