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Brooksie Elk is writing a novel about a deer whose name is stolen by a famous singer. She's found a book that can help her. Chapter 10, which covers libel, is especially helpful. #ghostwriting #WriteTip #libel
www.ghostwritingnovels.com

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/5/30/ex-sinn-fein-leader-gerry-adams-wins-libel-case-against-the-bbc

#GerryAdams #BBC #libel

Lol, and this is why news outlets don't jump in and say things like "That Elon is high on drugs, isn't he?"

The freedom of being a nobody...

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/may/30/gerry-adams-defamation-action-against-bbc-over-murdered-spy-claim

#GerryAdams #Libel #BBC #TheTroubles

Today in Writing History May 21, 1703: The authorities imprisoned writer Daniel Defoe for seditious libel. Defoe was most famous for his novels Robinson Crusoe, published in 1719, and Moll Flanders (1722). However, he also wrote political pamphlets, including The Shortest Way with the Dissenters, which satirized how Tories handled religious dissenters by proposing that they all be exterminated. As a result, the authorities arrested and imprisoned him for seditious libel.

#censorship #prison #writing #author #fiction #freespeech #censorship #satire #danieldefoe #libel #books @bookstadon

#VandaagGemaakt paring van de #vuurjuffer (Pyrrhosoma nymphula). En de vijver is nog niet eens af!
#vuurjuffers #libelle #libel #waterjuffer #waterjuffers

The irony is that Palin is amongst the lesser stupid people who have been at the forefront of Republican politics. Trump, Vance, and the entire GOP establishment are moral and intellectual degenerates.
#SarahPalin #USPolitics #libel #PressFreedom #authoritarianism
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/22/business/media/sarah-palin-new-york-times-jury-deliberations.html

#SarahPalin loses her #libel #lawsuit against the #NewYorkTimes

https://boingboing.net/2025/04/22/sarah-palin-loses-her-libel-lawsuit-against-the-new-york-times.html

ON A SERIOUS NOTE
“christian” zionists hate anybody semitic and Arab so much, they support the #genocide of #Christian #Palestinians
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/apr/18/jerusalem-christians-easter-israeli-crackdown-church-holy-sepulchre

and to our Jewish kin:
today many xian zionist cults celebrate the Jewish #deicide #libel that is at the heart of the #Inquisition #expulsiones #pogroms and #Holocaust.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_deicide

and i say celebrate: the RCC officially repudiated the libel that many genocidal xians (including catholics) won’t cosign
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nostra_aetate

Free Speech in Crisis https://oklahomawatch.org/2025/04/02/free-speech-in-crisis/ #MikeReynolds #AaronEaston #BillieDyson #FalseRumors #MatinaDavis #AndyLester #freespeech #Democracy #Libel

Supreme Court declines Steve Wynn’s bid to loosen libel standard
https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/5210452-supreme-court-steve-wynn-libel/

#SCOTUS #Libel #SteveWynn #TrumpLoss #USPol

With a Trump-friendly #SupremeCourt and a contentious relationship with the #press, could Donald #Trump follow through on his 2016 campaign goal of making it easier to sue #media companies for #libel—and imperil America’s #FreePress?
#FirstAmendment #FreeSpeech

https://slate.com/podcasts/what-next-tbd/2025/03/how-trump-is-attacking-freedom-of-the-press

How grassroots protesters became Elon Musk's biggest nightmare - Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2025/03/13/billionaire-baby-cant-handle-people-saying-mean-things-about-his-cars.html

#uspol #elonmuskisanazi #libel #teslatakedown

More than 60 years ago, New York Times C. v. Sullivan established that, to succeed in defamation cases, public figures must prove that a published statement is false and that publishers acted with "actual malice." "Murder the Truth," a new book by New York Times journalist and editor David Enrich, discusses the movement to overturn Sullivan, accelerated by Trump, his allies and people who are influenced by them. Nieman Lab spoke to Enrich about his investigation, the journalists he spoke to, and more. "The push to overturn Roe was obviously one of the most coordinated assaults on established Supreme Court precedent, probably in history," Enrich says. "This is definitely not like that — but it’s not an accident that these people were getting up and being given platforms on places like Fox News to make these arguments over and over again."

https://flip.it/AVGQcJ

#USLaw #Law #Libel #Defamation #Books @bookstodon #Media #Journalism #MurderTheTruth

A quotation from Moliere

DORINE: Those who have the greatest cause for guilt and shame
   Are quickest to besmirch a neighbor’s name.
 
[Ceux de qui la conduite offre le plus à rire
Sont toujours sur autrui les premiers à médire.]

Molière (1622-1673) French playwright, actor [stage name for Jean-Baptiste Poquelin]
Tartuffe, or the Hypocrite [Le Tartuffe, ou L’Imposteur], Act 1, sc. 1 (1669) [tr. Wilbur (1963)]

Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/moliere/41528/

#quote #quotes #quotation #diversion #gossip #guilt #guiltyconscience #libel #meme #scandal #shame #slander

Interesting thing about American absolutist free speech, you can say just about anything you want no matter how vile or how untrue, unless it might cost the wealthy their money or reputation, libel being the only exemption to absolute free speech. #FreeSpeech #libel