ABSTRACT
Libel law must always be in the process of adapting to relevant cultural changes. There can be no guarantee, however, that libel law adapts properly, and in timely fashion, to those changes. This Article considers libel law, and in particular the crucial role of claims of truth and falsity, in today’s cultural context.
The focus herein is on the implications for truth and falsity in libel cases of two important cultural phenomena. We address in particular the significance of our partly ‘post-truth’ culture. We then take up how this broadly defined post-truth culture interacts with our intense political polarization in libel law truth-and-falsity contexts.
Throughout, the main theme is that our libel law, and in particular the law of truth and falsity, has thus far not meaningfully adapted, in any fashion, to relevant post-truth and polarization-related cultural developments.
Wright, R George, The Problem of Truth and Falsity in Today’s Libel Law (July 21, 2026).
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