Critics pummeled The New York Times for questioning whether inaccurate speech is protected by the Constitution after Robert F. Kennedy Jr. testified on Capitol Hill.
was pummeled by critics for saying Thursday's congressional hearing featuring Democratic presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr."raised thorny questions" about whether misinformation is protected speech.
Robert Kennedy Jr., 2024 Presidential hopeful, testifies at the"Weaponization of the Federal Government" hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on July 20, 2023.The Times' coverage of the hostile exchanges on Capitol Hill seemed far more sympathetic to the stance being held by the Democratic lawmakers.
"Even 10 years ago, journalists would be too embarrassed to say the US Govt has a role to play in censoring the internet to ‘tamp down’ on ‘falsehoods.’ Because online censorship is now so central to the liberal establishment, they don't realize how twisted it is to say this," independent journalistreacted."It's also staggering to see a NYT journalist muse that ‘misinformation’ isn't ‘protected by the 1st Amendment.
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