Michigan "Big Lie" lawmaker proposes eerie bill that would punish fact checkers: "You better be right"

[LDoBe]

It’s entirely grandstanding.

There’s absolutely no chance this could pass muster in court.

The whole point is for a republican to continue their narrative that it’s the media that’s against them, not their own stupidity, lack of popular support and disinterest in actual democracy.

[jerwin]

The end stage:

speculation about politics (a.k.a journalism) becaomes ruinously expensive for news organizations. All part of managed democracy