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I must not understand, because my understanding is that lying in political ads is absolutely not illegal.

Slander is still a civil liability, though there is an understandably high bar to prove slander against a politician.

Correct, you do not understand the argument. Even if it was made explicitly illegal, you can create your own "facts".

I understand that claims can be generated in such a way to make them difficult to verify or dispute. I agree with that part of the parent comment.

My criticism was not aimed at that part of the parent comment, but rather at the suggestion that an absurd “ministry of truth” with a “correctness API“ is necessary to have a system that recognizes that some claims are true and some are not.

How do you see the system working?

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