{"pk":60199,"title":"Correcting Digital Speech","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The market for information has changed dramatically in the past\n \ndecade with the popularization of the Internet, the exponential growth\n \nin number and variety of speakers, and the increased democratization\n \nof speech. These shifts have made digital media particularly\n \nvulnerable to harm from information pollution; the information market\n \nis not as capable as it once was of ensuring that the truth prevails.\n \nAnecdotal evidence suggests that information consumers are not\n \nlooking for the truth, but rather, for information that confirms their\n \nown pre-existing biases. Moreover, there is significant evidence that\n \npeople are resistant to changing their minds from what they had\n \npreviously believed, even if it is later proven to be false. Combined,\n \nmarket failures in disseminating information and personal heuristics in\n \ninterpreting information suggest that the remedy of more speech to\n \ncombat false or defamatory speech is not as effective as once thought.\n \nInstead, First Amendment jurisprudence should be rebalanced to allow\n \nfor a general right of correction for digital speech.","language":"en","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Essays","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/8nd260rs","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Jamie","middle_name":"","last_name":"Lund","name_suffix":"","institution":"","department":""}],"date_submitted":"2015-04-25T08:39:54-07:00","date_accepted":"2015-04-25T08:39:54-07:00","date_published":"2011-12-31T16:00:00-08:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/uclalaw_elr/article/60199/galley/46158/download/"}]}