“Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It” by Paul Thagard. Columbia University Press

Abstract

1 It's clear that Thagard is arguing for the prohibition of speech (or the restriction of free assembly on the basis of speech of those who assemble) that reaches far beyond what, for example, U.S. courts regard as regulable speech.A canonical example of a claim he thinks warrants censoring is the claim he calls the "replacement theory": that low birth rates among European and North Americans of European descent combined with high rates of immigration are part of an amorphous movement to "replace" Euro-should write a book entitled "Falsehoods Fly: Misinformation and how to use it for political advantage."I would have declined to review such a book.