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The article discusses the wider effects of harmful speech in the U.S. It mentions the legal themes described here take on a new resonance in an era of social media and Internet journalism. It also mentions drawing equally on the imperatives of a bygone legal system and on the best practices of visitors to madhouses, we must develop social strategies to help us repair the human wreckage created by social media.

An editorial is presented discussing the timeliness and importance of exploring misinformation in Canada in this post-truth age. It outlines that Canada is plagued by the spread of misinformation and online hate, with social and political risks resulting from weaponization by different groups and politicians. The article highlights the need for more research in this area, which has been under-researched in Canada compared to the United States and European Union contexts.

The article discusses how the U.S. Supreme Court failed to modernize defamation law to include the use of social media and online sources in its decisions in the cases Gertz v. Robert Welch and New York Times Co. v. Sullivan.

Based on the “Amendment 9 to Chinese Criminal Law” and the relevant judicial interpretations of China’s Supreme People’s Court and the Supreme People’s Procuratorate, this paper studies the subject and objective aspects of the crime of defamation in Chinese computer networks. As for criminal subjects, we have discussed the criminal liability of the forwarders and network service providers of cybercrime. With regard to the objective aspects of crime, we discuss the “fabricated facts” act of “defamation”, the act of “spreading” and the serious circumstances. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]