We are republishing this news analysis word for word. ProPublica is a non-profit newsroom whose specialty is investigating abuses of power. When Twitter and other Social Media platforms try to enforce the truth, things get complicated, and the “truth forgers” run away to create havoc in more places.
The assault on Freedom of the Press is challenging, e.g., does our Constitution’s First Amendment about free speech really mean freedom to lie, twist the facts, distort, and misrepresent? We think not. We prosecute forgers, and the extremists who deliberately seek to misinform the public are really no different than forgers who twist the truth. See the Alex Jones Law Suit brought by Sandy Hook parents who lost their children in a school shooting – a mass murder that Jones repeatedly denied on his radio show.