Why regulations on empirical claims in the media are justified

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ID10690941
AutoresJohn J Park (0000-0003-2757-2415, California State University, Sacramento, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume74
Fascículo4
Páginas1274-1295
Data de publicação2024-09-25
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoThe Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/pq/pqae082
OpenAlexW4400639909
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas16

In light of rampant fake news and disinformation in today's press and social media, I provide a new consequentialist argument that regulations on the media pertaining to certain false verifiable empirical facts are warranted. This contention is based in part on a collection of pre-existing empirical findings that I newly piece together from political science and psychology demonstrating that a post-truth society is likely with current media. My position is then defended from several counters, such as that it violates deontological rights to free speech and to freedom of the press, that free speech leads to the acquisition of truth, and that government regulators can be biased and corrupt

Argument (complex analysis) · Disinformation · Economics · Empirical evidence · Empirical research · Epistemology · Free speech · Freedom of the press · Government (linguistics) · Internet privacy · Law and economics · Media studies · Political science · Politics · Position (finance) · Public relations · Social media · Sociology · Computer Science · Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Philosophy · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

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