“The First Amendment doesn’t allow you to willingly lie.”
What PolitiFact found
In most cases, the First Amendment considers lies to be protected speech. There are exceptions to this general rule, but they are limited.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Whoopi Goldberg (Co-host of "The View") made this claim around 8 March 2023. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 17 March 2023, 9 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
Whoopi Goldberg has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 1 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
Where the claim appeared
- realclearpolitics.comhttp://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2023/03/08/whoopi_goldberg_tucker_carlsons_january…
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