Abstract
By late 2016, the term “fake news” had entered the nation’s lexicon, a candidate who refused to release his tax returns had won the presidency of the United States, and a professional wrestler turned reality star had won millions from a jury after a website published what it argued was his newsworthy sex tape. How we got to this point is in large part what Sam Lebovic explores in Free Speech and Unfree News: The Paradox of Press Freedom in America. We seem to be in a time when we do not know what information is accurate and what may be planted nefariously, when governmental actors seem to worry little about public access, and when truth is no longer necessarily an absolving defense for publishers who push the envelope of propriety. But to some extent, as Lebovic explains through an intriguing lens of history and law, it has all happened before.
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