Perhaps Milton was Right After All

Poynter Institute rounds up some recent studies on fact checking and mind changing.

The fake news phenomenon led to an explosion in media coverage of fact-checking in the final months of 2016. Now academia, with its slower publication process, is catching up.
Since November, studies have failed to replicate the backfire effect and tested the power of corrections on partisan voters in both the United States and France.

And we will stash this insight from a recent law article right here. Milton opposed prior restraint.

Milton was also willing to concede that the Government should be able to
penalize offensive speech. If printers published scandalous or seditious work,
Milton accepted the premise that the Government should "confine, imprison, and
do sharpest justice on them as malefactors.,,67 But, licensing, according to
Milton, created a special and intolerable harm by preventing books from ever
seeing the light of day.