...It is in this context that Florida House Bill 757 was written, and written, moreover, pretty clearly as a challenge to New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. Florida House Bill 757 provides, among other things, that whenever a journalist publishes a false claim about a politician that relies on anonymous sourcing, the court must assume that it was done with “actual malice,” thus effectively destroying Sullivan’s most daunting test. This may sound like good news, but what it actually does is turn Sullivan on its head and make it a vehicle for shutting down conservative journalists altogether.
[Source.](https://humanevents.com/2024/02/27/human-events-floridas-libel-bill-paves-the-road-to-free-speech-hell)
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...It is in this context that Florida House Bill 757 was written, and written, moreover, pretty clearly as a challenge to New York Times Co. v. Sullivan. Florida House Bill 757 provides, among other things, that whenever a journalist publishes a false claim about a politician that relies on anonymous sourcing, the court must assume that it was done with “actual malice,” thus effectively destroying Sullivan’s most daunting test. This may sound like good news, but what it actually does is turn Sullivan on its head and make it a vehicle for shutting down conservative journalists altogether.
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