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It is rare for First Amendment lawyers to side against a media company. But many of them have done just that, arguing that a finding against #Fox will send an important message: The law does not protect those who #peddle #disinformation. And it would help dispel the idea, First Amendment experts said, that #libel laws should be rewritten to make it easier to win defamation suits, as Mr. Trump and other conservatives, including Justice Clarence Thomas, have suggested.

From a @NYTimes article with an artfully misleading headline

nytimes.com/2023/03/12/busines

The New York TimesFox’s P.R. Woes May Not Directly Translate to Legal OnesBy Jeremy W. Peters