neutrality

Platforms would qualify for immunity only if the companies “meet high standards of neutrality, transparency, fairness and nondiscrimination,” Trump said.

While every honest observer knows this, the baseline neutrality that undergirds fact-checking prevents the fact-checkers from saying so; moreover, it requires them to pretend not just that each party is equally apt to lie to voters, but that the scope, intent, and implications of these lies are somehow functionally equivalent.

Instead, it hollowed out newsrooms while privileging callow plutocrats who smarmily inform us that civility and neutrality will cure the crisis that they and their peers created.

If these people can be persuaded at all, they will be persuaded not by neutrality, but by narrative.

However, Wardlaw wrote in her ruling that the state failed to show that its nonsectarian requirement is “narrowly tailored to serve” the interest of religious neutrality.