The First Amendment is one ingredient about why, for example, police in Atlanta have to go through all these legal gymnastics to strike back at activists they don’t like: https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/three-atlanta-activists-arrested-home-raided-over-bail-fund/ They’re spinning these trumped-up charges, trying to turn fundraising into fraud, and their charges just don’t have a legal leg to stand on.
But if the gov had the power to decide what’s “lies” and “propaganda,” and then make that illegal? Then the police could just go straight for the jugular.
3/