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Donald Trump has threatened to shut down NBC and other American networks, saying that they peddle fake news.
"With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License? Bad for country!" Mr Trump wrote in a tweet.
Mr Trump's tweet came in response to a story written by NBC, which said that Mr Trump had sought to increase America's nuclear arsenal tenfold after taking a look at a briefing slide that showed stead reduction of the US nuclear arsenal since the 1960s. The story cited three officials who were reportedly in the room when Mr Trump made the comments.
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(Score: 3, Informative) by VLM on Thursday October 19 2017, @08:01PM
I've done some research at lunch hour for fun and to summarize public figures practically cannot be defamed in a purely legal sense. Also damages are hard to specify leading to certain failure. Ironically being biased propaganda infotainment from the D party protects the news media, if they claimed to be honest and not entertainment satire opinions they'd have much more legal trouble. You'd have to reverse a lot of the legal system to use it against fake news.
A lot of internet web 2.0 legal fun seems oriented around redefining who is a journalist and who is a public figure. Possibly in the future world there will be no more fake news or perhaps there will be no more libel and slander laws, or more likely we'll muddle thru.
An example of the excessive freedom provided to the press would be the incredible expense and time of destroying Gawker. Its hard to imagine a company faker and more in need of destruction.