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message and inﬂuencing the public. This advantage is independent of whether or
not the information being spread is true or false, though in the immediate context it
gives rise to the dramatic sense that the current state of affairs is one in which
society is “counter[ing] a ﬁrehose of falsehood with a squirt gun of truth” (Paul
and Courtney 2016). Rectifying that balance of power focuses on better equalizing
the instrumentalities of discourse. Such a goal may be more tractable politically,
legally, and intellectually than deﬁning what the threshold of “truthiness” should
be and delegating that to private actors and the government to interpret and
enforce.
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