Slanderous remarks are spoken while libelous remarks are written and published (which means defamatory tweets could be considered libelous, not slanderous).
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In contrast to black campaigning which is libelous and informal.
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"This story is totally false and deliberately libelous," Manafort said.
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The judge said false claims of rehab are libelous ... period.
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" She calls the newspaper's allegations not only "false" but "libelous.
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It insulates social media companies when users post defamatory or libelous statements.
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Kagoike said he's now the victim of a "malicious and libelous" smear campaign.
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Trump as anti-Semite is not implausible, but it is absurd and libelous.
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"This story is totally false and deliberately libelous," Manafort said in a statement.
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Mr. Trump's lawyers called the article libelous and seemed to threaten to sue.
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His lawyers sent the Times a letter demanding that they retract their "libelous" article.
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"This story is totally false and deliberately libelous," he said in a written statement.
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Accordingly, I demand that you immediately cease publication of this false and libelous claim.
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Trump's announcement of his candidacy, generously laced with libelous accusations against Latinos, felt oddly familiar.
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In other words, if I post a libelous screed to Facebook, I'm responsible, not Facebook.
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Keep in mind what makes a statement libelous or slanderous is its inaccuracy, not its harshness.
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No matter how nasty a tweet, as long as it's factually correct, it cannot be libelous.
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Speaking to CNNMoney on Friday, Mwangaguhunga admitted publishing the potentially libelous accusations was shortsighted and irresponsible.
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We put him on notice that there are consequences for making completely false and libelous statements.
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But I think I have a right to resent, to object to libelous statements about my dog.
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The entry must not contain material that is inappropriate, indecent, obscene, hateful, tortuous, defamatory, slanderous or libelous.
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Bretz and his family "will prosecute Ms. Gentz for her slanderous and libelous actions," his attorneys said.
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But it's curious how few companies or individuals actually do sue the paper for allegedly libelous claims.
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" The 28-page lawsuit filed on Monday outlined the alleged rape, citing Trump's responses as libelous and "abhorrent.
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She therefore had grounds to say that Hammond's post actually constituted a libelous statement, and sued her in 2015.
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" Huizenga rebutted, filing a lawsuit against Gwynn and the Post, saying the story was "fabricated, fictitious, and outright libelous.
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While labeling Trump's words "mean" and "hateful," a media law expert contended they were unlikely to be considered libelous.
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Only inaccuracies about public figures like Sullivan published with "actual malice" can be considered libelous, the Supreme Court ruled.
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Jones can disseminate whatever he chooses on his own website, thereby assuming responsibility for any libelous or illegal content.
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However, a judge ruled Wednesday the tweets ... including gems like, "this bitch got control problems" ... aren't libelous on their face.
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What's next: The German government says if Facebook doesn't get faster at deleting potentially libelous stories, it will force compliance.
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Instead, you pursued your next libelous and vicious crusade you engineered an attempt to frame and defame an innocent person.
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Now the Trump administration made an assertion that, like most libelous rumors, will never be completely erased in some people's minds.
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" Manafort also denied meeting Assange, saying in a statement through his attorney that the "story is totally false and deliberately libelous.
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The American Association of Naturopathic Physicians (AANP) called a petition she started against naturopathic expansion "defamatory and libelous" in a Change.
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From the outset, they have energetically engaged in the information war through their own lively, libelous and, at times, ludicrous media channels.
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This gives Facebook an awful choice: filter nothing or aggressively filter all content to exclude anything remotely libelous or offensive to anyone.
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After the incident and arrest, the Knicks and Dolan made a number of statements the lawsuit says are defamatory, libelous and slanderous.
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And when Mr Connell said that even trademark based on a libelous statement should be approved, Sonia Sotomayor replied, "that makes no sense".
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The proposed rules would allow Indian officials to demand that big web platforms remove content that they deem libelous or bad for society.
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In the suit, Ratner claimed Kohler's claims that he "preyed on me as a drunk girl [and] forced himself upon me" were libelous.
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Simultaneously, big New York Investment Banks were suing Prodigy (RIP) for allowing allegedly libelous statements about them to appear on the online service.
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On Monday, his campaign called for the retraction of "libelous ads" by a super-PAC supporting Rubio that criticized him on Trump University.
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She filed a defamation lawsuit against Moore in January, and Moore countersued her in April for what he called "slanderous" and "libelous" allegations.
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Generally speaking, it is more difficult to succeed in libel suits when the allegedly libelous statements are presented as opinions, rather than facts.
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Justice Sonia Sotomayor asked whether someone could retain a trademark in the phrase "Trump is a thief" even after it was proved libelous.
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Trump refused to apologize, complaining that his relationship with the political press was the result of what he called "probably libelous" stories about him.
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If Trump disagrees that the story was libelous, "we welcome the opportunity to have a court set him straight," McCraw said in the letter.
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The country is also weighing regulations to block certain internet content posted on social media deemed libelous, an invasion of privacy, hateful or deceptive.
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What this means in practice is that Yelp, for example, cannot be held liable for a user's negative—even libelous—review of a restaurant.
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Section 2230 was intended to protect free speech online by removing liability for a newspaper, say, for libelous comments posted on their websites by readers.
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The clause protects online services from liability for speech published on their network, like a libelous statement in the comments section of a news article.
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"Alexander Rhodes and NoFap's lawsuit has no merit nor do his libelous and unfounded assertions regarding me, my character, or my business," Prause told Motherboard.
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Aaron Schur, a lawyer for Yelp, said that the company examined the reviews about Ms. Hassell's business and did not find them to be libelous.
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But if Trump's defense is not true, and because Trump names Comey in his most recent tweet about their meeting, then Trump's accusation is libelous.
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A media law expert says that while President Trump's tweets attacking MSNBC host Mika Brzezinski are "mean" and "hateful," they're unlikely to be considered libelous.
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"We would like to applaud Michael Johnson for doing a superb job navigating the company through a number of libelous attacks during this period," Icahn said.
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"This libelous claim is in line with many other outrageous claims and theories that this individual has advanced regarding the Casey Anthony case," the statement says.
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The ruling appears to be the first to address the question of whether being labeled as transgender is sufficiently harmful to one's reputation to be libelous.
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The race turned ugly when Renacci leveled unsubstantiated allegations that Brown had made unwanted advances toward women, which Brown's campaign protested as "false and libelous" statements.
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Libelous stories, such as those about him being engaged in illegal activities or his cabinet members not paying taxes, would never be permitted elsewhere, he said.
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The more the law factors in efforts to stop libelous statements from getting out of hand, the less likely damage claims will get out of hand.
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The clause protects online services from liability for speech published by their users, including those who make libelous statements in the comments section of news websites.
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"Tod's reserves the right to defend its reputation against the libelous attempt of Keope to involve it in issues that do not concern Tod's," the spokeswoman said.
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Freedom of speech is the right to say what one chooses, again subject to civil or criminal penalties for libelous or illegal content, in the public forum.
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"This Court finds that Plaintiff has not demonstrated that any subject video deposition contains scandalous, libelous, or other unduly prejudicial material warranting denial of media access," the judge wrote.
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"Libelous personal attacks on climate scientists have been a key part of the skullduggery of far-right wing climate denying thugs and their funders for many years," Bledsoe said.
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From the letter that your outside counsel released this afternoon, it sounds like the company doesn't give much weight to Mr. Trump's lawyer's claim that the book is libelous.
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Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday had strong words for the Pakistani media, accusing journalists of penning libelous stories and anti-democratic propaganda in the name of news coverage.
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For instance, while a newspaper can be sued for libel if it prints something untrue written by a reporter, Facebook cannot be sued because a user posts something libelous.
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Under the proposed rules, Indian officials could demand that Facebook, Google, Twitter, TikTok and others remove posts or videos that they deem libelous, invasive of privacy, hateful or deceptive.
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When you put these things together, it raises serious questions as to whether anyone in the White House or Congress knew about or helped coordinate the potentially libelous tweetstorm.
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" New Jersey judge rules twin girls have different fathers Sloan alleges that Shatner's social media director posted "malicious, libelous and slanderous statements about the Plaintiff (Sloan) on Facebook and Twitter.
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"We would like to applaud Michael Johnson for doing a superb job navigating the company through a number of libelous attacks during this period," Mr. Icahn said in a statement.
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If you see a video on YouTube that you think is inappropriate or illegal, be it hate speech, pornographic, libelous, or otherwise improper, you can report the video to YouTube.
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Sullivan, that decided libelous statements about public officials — like Donald Trump — are protected by the law as long as the news organization doesn't publish said statements knowing they were false.
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No one is arguing that Facebook should attempt to divide one set of op-eds from another, merely that it stop allowing clearly false, and in some cases, libelous content.
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Still, Dawson's video could be seen as potentially libelous against Chuck E. Cheese's, suggesting Dawson's video could be harmful to the business and deterring viewers who may have planned to visit.
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Anything Gfycat deems "unlawful, harmful, threatening, abusive, harassing, tortious, excessively violent, defamatory, vulgar, obscene, libelous, invasive of another's privacy, hateful racially, ethnically or otherwise objectionable" is subject to removal, as well.
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" Trump said he got "great press" prior to announcing his presidential run last year and condemned media outlets for now reporting stories on the real estate mogul that he called "libelous.
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The New York Times said on Thursday it stood by its story and rejected charges the article was libelous after a lawyer for Trump threatened legal action and demanded a retraction.
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The lawsuit, filed in federal court in the Northern District of Georgia, is accusing CNN of publishing a libelous opinion piece on its website about Russia's efforts to influence U.S. elections.
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In the first case, a court found in 22.2 that CompuServe, one of the internet's first major service providers, could not be held responsible for the libelous content posted by its users.
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"I will not hesitate to have The Verge answer legally, financially and professionally to any unsubstantiated claim, anonymous quote, or libelous statement that results in damage to our business," he wrote in one.
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I think, for example, if you take their mission seriously, which is to serve all humans and certainly all Americans, they really shouldn't be censoring content unless libelous, obscene, that's about it. Pornographic.
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Trump threatened legal action against Bannon over "libelous" remarks quoted by writer Michael Wolff in the book "Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House," after excerpts were published by media outlets on Wednesday.
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Details: The new rules would allow Indian officials to demand the removal of posts or videos from Facebook, Twitter, Google, TikTok and other platforms that they deem libelous, hateful, deceptive or invasive of privacy.
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The former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee is arguing Twitter is "facilitating defamation on its platform" and cites the two parody accounts as examples, saying they have made "libelous" statements about the California Republican.
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Here's 20 pages when we're famous and here's 20 pages after we couldn't stand each other and now I've written all this libelous stuff about the guys I used to be in the band with.
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Now let's see what Infowars says about censoring people on its own website: You will not post anything libelous, defamatory, harmful, threatening, harassing, abusive, invasive of another's privacy, hateful, racially or ethnically objectionable, or otherwise illegal.
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In New York State Court, Dr. Rodchenkov's lawyers countersued three Russian biathletes who have called it libelous that he linked them to the state-backed doping scheme that corrupted the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia.
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Both appellate courts said plaintiffs seeking to unmask anonymous posters need only make a prima facie showing that the anonymous statements are libelous and that they cannot pursue their claims without establishing the poster's true identity.
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The lawsuit alleged that Oliveira — who was not named as a defendant in the suit — was selling false and libelous information about Simmons to the National Enquirer and Radar Online, both owned by American Media, Inc.
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The President has called on Wolff and his publisher, Henry Holt, to halt the book's publication and threatened them with a lawsuit alleging that its contents are libelous, defamatory and an infringement on the President's privacy.
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The copy editor will look for grammatical errors, and sometimes the publisher's lawyer will check the book to make sure there's nothing libelous in there, but fact-checking is not part of the standard publisher's process.
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The lawsuit comes after Abraham was threatened with a cease and desist letter due to her "defamatory statements and libelous communications" about the Boom Cups Celebrity Boxing Showdown, according to the letter obtained by PEOPLE in November.
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Drogba, who now plays for Canadian Major League Soccer club Montreal Impact, denied the allegations in a strongly worded statement in which he said he would issue legal proceedings against the newspaper for "incorrect and libelous" information.
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Nunes' lawsuit mostly focuses on a cluster of Twitter accounts that Nunes claims were coordinating libelous attacks on him, primarily "Devin Nunes' Cow", the now-suspended "Devin Nunes' Mom", and the account of Republican political consultant Liz Mair.
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The law could pass before the week it out: Under the proposed rules, Indian officials could demand that Facebook, Google, Twitter, TikTok and others remove posts or videos that they deem libelous, invasive of privacy, hateful or deceptive.
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He lamented a ruling in the European Union's top court that could force Facebook to take down content that is found to be libelous outside the country where the ruling is made, in a blow to free speech.
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A. If the copy editor sees something that might be libelous or tasteless or otherwise contrary to the paper's standards, he or she might ask for a ruling from whichever op-ed editor is on duty that evening.
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"It is libelous, and Wikipedia and Google should take more ownership of what is published on their sites, since both companies just said 5 million Californians support Nazism," said Cynthia Bryant, executive director of the California Republican Party.
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Photo: GettyIn August, Elizabeth Ann Clark sued her ex-husband Adam Matthew Clark and his new girlfriend for stalking, cyberstalking, revenge porn, and libelous comments, which included allegedly posting fake personal ads of her on Craigslist and Facebook.
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"Anything that a president would say — even if it was libelous or scandalous — it's the president talking, and I think you report it," said Chris Wallace, the "Fox News Sunday" host who moderated this year's third presidential debate.
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" Mair shared two of those potentially libelous statements on Twitter: "Nunes leaked text messages between a lobbyist and Senator Mark Warner to Fox News" and "voted for warrantless wiretapping and unlimited surveillance of Americans' emails (incl Carter Page's).
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" In May 2016, the NSCA sued Berger, Greene, Glassman, and CrossFit in San Diego Superior Court, arguing that the Russells had made statements "libelous on their face" that had cost the organization money and "loss of its business reputation.
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Zuckerberg also seemed resigned to changes to Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, which protects tech companies from being prosecuted for the content on their servers — such as pornography or libelous comments — that users might create or upload.
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Earlier this week, the former MTV star was threatened with a cease and desist letter due to her "defamatory statements and libelous communications" about the Boom Cups Celebrity Boxing Showdown, according to the letter obtained by PEOPLE on Wednesday.
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Among other, potentially libelous aspects of Donald Trump's morning broadside against the fired FBI director, the president retweeted this Fox & Friends segment featuring Chaffetz, the former chairman of the GOP oversight committee and newly cashed-out Fox News contributor. .
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" The Republican's lawyers also sent a letter to the Times demanding a retraction for the "libelous article" and said that "failure to do so will leave my client with no option but to pursue all available actions and remedies.
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The former Teen Mom OG star, 27, was recently threatened with a cease and desist letter due to her "defamatory statements and libelous communications" about the Boom Cups Celebrity Boxing Showdown, according to the letter obtained by PEOPLE on Wednesday.
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When faced with the false and libelous claims she has now asserted in this lawsuit, Mr. Goguen wanted Ms. Baptiste to leave him and his family alone, and felt that he had no choice but to pay her to accomplish this.
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The lawsuit alleges that Oliveira — who was not named as a defendant in the suit — sold false and libelous information that Simmons was transition to become a woman to the National Enquirer and Radar Online, both owned by American Media, Inc.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The New York Times said on Thursday that it stands by its story about two women who say Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump made inappropriate advances, and rebutted claims by a lawyer for Trump that the story is libelous.
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Nunes, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, sued Twitter and the anonymous users operating the accounts earlier this year, asserting that the social media platform was "facilitating defamation" by allowing the accounts to share "libelous" statements about him.
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Parks was fired after Season 9 for her role in spreading a potentially libelous lie against Burruss, thus ending her archetype of the backbiting, self-righteous Southern belle (as well as any real reminder of Apollo Nida and his compelling fraud storyline).
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What the mom of two went through was incredibly traumatic, and the subsequent victim-blaming, libelous claims in the media that the attack was staged (which Kim is fighting), tasteless Halloween costumes, and insensitive reactions are only making her recovery more difficult.
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The lawsuit, filed in Los Angeles Superior Court, alleges that Oliveira — who was not named as a defendant in the suit — was selling false and libelous information about Simmons to the National Enquirer and Radar Online, both owned by American Media, Inc.
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It was specious, libelous and reckless, regardless of the weak revelations of "incidental collection" that the Republican chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and Trump transition team member Devin Nunes outrageously made public, briefing the president without first briefing his fellow committee members.
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He nonchalantly presents his constructed persona, a narcissistic fraud named William Powhida (here played by Amos Satterlee in a video interview with art critic Ben Davis) as the author of his work, which routinely skewers the art establishment's glitterati with assertions bordering on the libelous.
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"We believe the allegations are so profoundly wrong about Mr. Cohen that the dossier is libelous and any repetitions of its allegations by the committee should be rejected," Cohen's lawyer wrote in the August letter to the House committee, published by The Daily Beast.
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Peter Wehner, who worked in President Reagan's administration and both Bush administrations, said Monday on CNN that the stronger the case is that Mueller has, "the more vitriolic, the more acrimonious, the more libelous" Trump and his supporters will be in their attacks on the special counsel.
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"[9] Judge Weinfeld, then 84, reaffirmed the First Amendment rule that "[e]xpressions of one's opinion of another, however unreasonable, or vituperative, since they cannot be subjected to the test of truth or falsity, cannot be held libelous and are entitled to absolute immunity from liability under the First Amendment.
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Sullivan, where it was ruled that in order for published information about a public figure to be considered libelous or defamatory, it must be made with "'actual malice'—that is, with knowledge that it was false or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not," according to the 1964 decision.
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Relying on a blatant and intentional misinterpretation of what's considered the most important law protecting internet speech—Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act—Cruz's thinking is that, legally, all websites have to remain politically neutral, or else be held liable for any of the offensive or libelous content generated by their users.
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Subject: Defamatory accusations, account termination, work communication suspension Date: 4/2/2018City: New Bern, North CarolinadWhile YouTube is permitted by TOS to terminate any account for any reason, it is libelous as well as cyber bullying to, on multiple occasions, accuse users (as they did to me) for violating their Guidelines when I did not.
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Repealing the immunity provision could force these companies to use an editorial system where every piece of user-posted content would have to be vetted for illegal or libelous material before it's posted, instead relying on algorithms and human checkers to scan it after it was already online and had a chance to spread to millions of people.
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Google's objection was to be expected, because, under prior case law, Google cannot be compelled to reveal the identity of an anonymous poster unless and until Elliott can prove that the posts were libelous, said Paul Levy, an attorney with Public Citizen who has helped establish precedent for when a court can compel an internet provider to identify an anonymous user.
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" And the corrected version: Conservatives react: Washington Examiner article: "NYT still peddling trash about Palin and the Gabrielle Giffords shooting" Daily Caller article: NYT Uses GOP Shooting To Falsely Attack Sarah Palin With Debunked Conspiracy Theory Townhall editor Guy Benson tweets: "Spent all day trying to be fair to the Left, then their 'paper of record' pumps out this libelous bilge.
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CBS or The New York Times would never publish a story accusing Hillary ClintonHillary Diane Rodham Clinton2020 Democrats make play for veterans' votes The Memo: Democrats confront prospect of long primary Manafort sought to hurt Clinton 2016 campaign efforts in key states: NYT MORE of running a child sex ring out of a Washington D.C. pizza parlor because it is obviously libelous.
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PayPal confirmed it would cease providing services to Infowars, as well as affiliated sites (of which it only referred to editor-at-large Paul Joseph Watson's site, Prison Planet, by name.) It's unclear where Jones could turn next, given that competing payment processor Square also has clauses in their terms of service prohibiting the uploading of "defamatory, libelous, threatening, harassing, hateful, abusive, or inflammatory" material.
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Donald TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE is demanding that The New York Times retract and apologize for a "libelous" article published Wednesday in which two women allege that Trump kissed or groped them without consent.
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It might be libelous to assert the Amazon 'intends to harm,' per the Oxford English Dictionary's definition of evil, but the litany of allegations against Amazon ranging from the individual (the mistreatment of workers, differential pricing to customers), to the market (anti-competitive behavior including the suppression of competitor products), to the social (tax avoidance)—suggest an organization that not only lacks a moral compass but could be well on its way to a state of 'profound immorality'.
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Squarespace Familiar to anyone who has ever listened to a podcast, idiot-proof site-building service Squarespace has, in its Acceptable Use Police, prohibited users to "advocate bigotry or hatred against any person or group based on their race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual preference, age or disability," and a broader clause against "'Hate sites' or content that could be reasonably considered as slanderous or libelous" was included in the ToS going back to 2004 when the company was first founded.
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In a recent essay on attempts by students at Claremont McKenna College to block a talk by the Manhattan Institute's Heather Mac Donald, a critic of the Black Lives Matter movement, The Atlantic's Conor Friedersdorf worried that more powerful political adversaries might someday use marginalized students' tactics against them: If these students succeed in changing free-speech norms in any realm, so that expression is more routinely suppressed when dubbed injurious or hateful or libelous, the history of speech restrictions on and off campus—a history routinely ignored by student censors—suggests marginalized communities will be hardest hit by their pyrrhic victory.
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