Leah Fowler, Max Helveston and Zoë Robinson, ‘Influencer Speech-Torts’, 113 Georgetown Law Journal (forthcoming, 2025), available at SSRN (August 22, 2024). The spread of disinformation is one of the most pressing problems facing society today. Lawmakers, policymakers, and researchers have focused on how disinformation disrupts political discourse and undermines democratic processes, threatens global security by contributing to the spread of extremist ideologies, furthers social and political polarization, and more. But as Leah Fowler, Max Helveston, and Zoë Robinson describe in their forthcoming article, ‘Influencer Speech-Torts’, it can also harm people’s health. (See also the Surgeon General’s Report, Confronting Health Misinformation.) They take on the specific problem of social media influencers providing health advice that causes their followers injury or even death … (more)
[Wendy Epstein, JOTWELL, 10 January 2025]
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