problem becomes who is the arbiter of what is true of false. If you have reporters/partisans who decide what is true or false then the system fails. Take a small example like the Pig With Lipstick ad. Media/Democrats proclaim its a lie, but those who watched Obama said it first time, left with no doubt in their mind who he was referring to
ok, but pig on a lipstick was not a false statement and has no basis of fact so it doesn’t meet the threshold and would be thrown out.
i’m saying the arbiter should be a legal one.