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If the claim that your site is dangerous is demonstrably false and there are demonstrable damages you can indeed be liable for damages or face injunction.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_statements_of_fact

I'm not sure if you know what the "first amendment" is. I'll tell you what it isn't, it's not a magical trump card that lets you say whatever you want.

http://searchengineland.com/another-court-affirms-googles-fi...

That seems to be how Google is (successfully) using it.

That's a VERY different situation. Google is claiming there that (essentially) they have the right to put sites in whatever order they want, and US courts are extremely sympathetic to that argument.

Here the issue is that Google is making direct, verbal claims about other sites. That's not to say Google couldn't come up with a strategy to win in court, but the strategy would have to differ markedly.

google is not a government agency. you can't claim first amendment when dealing with private parties. that's like me suing the NFL for not letting me post racist rants on their homepage because of the first amendment.

edit: i dun read gud. leaving comment as an homage to lack of literacy