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Why can’t we just ban politicians from lying? - Index on Censorship

www.indexoncensorship.org Why can’t we just ban politicians from lying? - Index on Censorship

An outright ban on intentional deception would be unenforceable, lead to self-censorship and do nothing to tackle the disinformation plaguing social media

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What is Truth?
- Anything supported by facts. The more facts, the more complete the truth.
- Technically truth is just the commonly accepted answer and not an objective fact of reality. It doesn't have to be a fact, or even real. Just that the majority of people think it is.
  
  I would call that belief, while "truth" is anything that's supported by facts.
  
  Plainly incorrect, but okay
  
  Bruh... It's literally one of the dictionary definitions of the word "truth."
  
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Argumentum_ad_populum
  
  Sure but whatever definition you use, they cross it too far.

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