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Co. v. Sullivan, which eventually morphed into a media license to lie about public figures, in dramatic contrast to the situation that had obtained historically in the U.S, and still does in every other Common Law country. It’s still not widely realized that defendants in libel actions brought by “public figures” in the U.S. now habitually make no effort to defend the truth of what they’ve said. They simply hide behind the enormous fault standard of Sullivan, viz. that they lacked actual knowledge of falsity or reckless disregard of the truth. American politics are often said to be becoming more extreme and polarized. I argued last year that one reason for this, since

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