Freedom of Speech and Regulation of Fake News
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Abstract
Professor Leslie Gielow Jacobs, Anthony Kennedy Professor of Law, Executive Director, Capital Center for Law & Policy, McGeorge School of Law
United States National Report for the 2022 General Congress of the International Academy of Comparative Law: Freedom of Expression and the Regulation of Fake News, published in a supplementary volume of the American Journal of Comparative Law, available online at:
https://academic.oup.com/ajcl/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ajcl/avac010/6597032
This report sets out the constitutional framework that structures regulation of the broadcast and spread of fake news in the United States, identifies the types of laws that currently exist within this framework and explains their applications, and notes new laws and proposals aimed specifically to address fake news and its adverse public consequences.
Publication Title
American Journal of Comparative Law
Recommended Citation
Leslie Gielow Jacobs, Freedom of Speech and Regulation of Fake News, AM. J. INT’L LAW SUPP., 2022, at avac010, https://doi.org/10.1093/ajcl/avac010.
