Defamation and Disinformation: Falsity as a Political Issue with Bill Turner

Описание: Lies! High profile defamation trials and mounting controversies about disinformation on social media have raised questions about the extent to which the First Amendment protects false speech. The rules governing defamation claims, and the rules governing social media, have become major political issues.

In April 2023, we were joined by William Bennett Turner, who examined the current debate and whether the defamation rules, and the legal protections afforded social media, should be abandoned or modified.

Turner taught First Amendment courses at Berkeley for more than three decades. In law practice, he argued three cases before the United States Supreme Court and many more in federal appellate courts and state supreme courts. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he had a Fulbright fellowship in comparative law, spent three years with a New York law firm, and ten years with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund. He is the author of three books on free speech issues.