If you ever wonder why the government doesn’t stop fake news—even during a public health crisis, this is one reason why.

Funded by the petrochemical billionaire Charles Koch and other right-wing billionaires with fortunes resting on lack of regulations, the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA) is bringing suit after suit claiming that the federal government is picking winners and losers in the marketplace of ideas.

Burt Neuborne from the Brennan Center for Justice explains, that it is not “unlawful for the government to express its views about the factual correctness or incorrectness of a given statement, and to urge private speakers to refrain from disseminating false information.”

New legislation will require an act of Congress to deal with the vague coercion v. persuasion standard or other limits to social media platforms, and right now with our campaign finance laws in ruins due to Citizens United v. FEC, that is going to be very difficult.

“A Koch-Funded Lawfare Group Is Suing The Biden Admin To Protect Vaccine Skepticism” by Walker Bragman.