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Re:Facebook to let users turn off political adverts by harimau777 on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @08:17AM (#23550461)
This wouldn't completely fix the problem, but I think it would help to not allow candidates to make factually false statements.

That is to say: there may not be a way to objectively say whether a given statement is true, but it is possible to objectively say that some statements are false.

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Re:Facebook to let users turn off political adverts by bhupy on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @08:38AM (#23550645)
NYT v Sullivan was a landmark Supreme Court case which held that the Constitution protects the publishing of political advertisements that contain factual inaccuracies.
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Re:Facebook to let users turn off political adverts by braythwayt on Wednesday June 17, 2020 @08:27AM (#23550534)
In other words, “science.”

Science is the study of falsifiable theory. Things that cannot be falsified lie outside of science.

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