X sues hate speech researchers whose “scare campaign” spooked advertisers

Re:X sues hate speech researchers whose “scare campaign” spo... by spott on Tuesday August 01, 2023 @06:58PM (#36964441)

I think the “in practice” is pretty important in that sentence. Because in practice it is pretty hard to prove that someone knew what they said was untrue.

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Re:X sues hate speech researchers whose “scare campaign” spo... by JohnFen on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @11:35AM (#36972336)

This is true, which is why a lot of successful lawsuits prove their case by showing that a reasonable person would have known, rather than that a particular person did know.

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