New from Yale University Press: Cheap Speech: How Disinformation Poisons Our Politics-and How to Cure It by Richard L. Hasen.About the book, from the publisher:
What can be done consistent with the First Amendment to ensure that American voters can make informed election decisions and hold free elections amid a flood of virally spread disinformation and the collapse of local news reporting? How should American society counter the actions of people like former President Donald J. Trump, who used social media to convince millions of his followers to doubt the integrity of U.S. elections and helped foment a violent insurrection? What can we do to minimize disinformation campaigns aimed at suppressing voter turnout?The Page 99 Test: Plutocrats United: Campaign Money, the Supreme Court, and the Distortion of American Elections by Richard L. Hasen.
With piercing insight into the current debates over free speech, censorship, and Big Tech’s responsibilities, Richard L. Hasen proposes legal and social measures to restore Americans’ access to reliable information on which democracy depends. In an era when quack COVID treatments and bizarre QAnon theories have entered mainstream, this book explains how to assure both freedom of ideas and a commitment to truth.
--Marshal Zeringue
