Every American to the right of Ocasio knows that the mainstream media lie and lie. Even much of truth and facts can be honestly, inadvertently tilted. Other facts can be deliberately slanted, though technically true. That is why Kellyanne Conway was right when she uttered her much-mocked assertion that there are “alternate facts.” Certainly, facts are facts, and they do not care about your feelings. But facts indeed can be slanted into alternate facts. Figures don’t lie, but liars can figure. And the media often go beyond reporting facts into concocting outright lies. Think of the Charlottesville lie. It will never stop being spread, even though the video exists all over YouTube, even though left-wing Snopes declared it a lie. Yet, Biden lied, saying that the Charlottesville press conference was why he ran for president. Such a liar, from his first gulp of mother’s milk to his future final injection of morphine. Then Harris repeated the same debunked lie in her presidential debate with Trump. The moderators, who kept fact-checking Trump throughout the debate, never fact-checked Harris, even though Charlottesville is the most famous lie since Gamal Abdul Nasser announced in June 1967 that Egypt had just wiped out the Israeli air force. So, even “fact-checking” often is rooted in and based on lies.

Nothing is more frustrating than to have one’s character or identity lied about. We all have experienced that, perhaps in elementary or high school, perhaps at work, perhaps in a volunteer-based non-profit association. Wherever people exist with an opportunity to ascend on some status or financial ladder, someone may undercut the competition by lying. We all have encountered this. In almost all our cases, we still are standing and thriving despite it all. However, some have been destroyed, and even a few have committed suicide.
The problem we face in America, in part, is that our legal system creates impediments to receiving a fair remedy when victimized by defamation. For ...