Do folks going through law school grok how proliferation of libelous and defamatory statements happens now, without friction and at the speed of light? And the outsized impact it can have as compared to times ago? I posit that libel and defamation should be even weightier issues than when British common law was around. I'm encouraged to see the turnout of Alex Jones ordeal and am anxiously waiting to see how Dominion vs Fox news turns out. I am hoping that the aftermath of all this is that journalists/people-pretending-to-be-journalists/anyone-with-a-sizable-platform will be more careful about their reporting and statements. Of course this is all a murky area because many times it's hard to decide what is true and even harder to decide who gets to do the deciding, but for getting the obvious things wrong and when signs of bad faith are clearly there the hammer should get dropped more often, I think such an environment would reduce chaos and extremism that we see more and more of.