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The Washington Post / Erik Wemple / Aug 1
“Protections for opinions are grounded in Supreme Court doctrine: ‘Under the First Amendment there is no such thing as a false idea. However pernicious an opinion may seem, we depend for its correction not on the conscience of judges and juries but on the competition of other ideas,’ reads the ruling in the 1974 case Gertz v. Welch.”
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