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Fox News graphic claims falsely that the average price of gas one year ago was $4.13, lower than it is right now. It was actually $3.14!

Blatant lies by licensed media corporations and elected officials need to be severely punishable by law. Enough of this. Post-truth is supposed to be a dire warning not a state of being.

Who gets to decide what is a lie? And “media corporations” don’t have licenses. Only over-the-air broadcast stations do.

If a false claim can be proven to be so grossly false it is undeniably a lie then that is a lie and the custodian of information that peddled that lie must be severely punished as a deterrent.

Proven…by who? And who will judge? And what is the necessary context to make it illegal? Oh, and what about the First Amendment or any SCOTUS decisions says (or even implies) that there’s an exclusion for lies?

Proven by measurable objectivity. As in this original post. It is an objective fact that national gas prices were not what is being reported. This can be proven by anyone. The necessary context is any lie pushed as fact to diminish public intelligence and cause harm.