Sen. Wendy Rogers shared sexual images of Hunter Biden with her more than 300K followers on Twitter, where users have to be at least 13 years old to sign up.

  • snooggums
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    11 year ago

    Tarnished their reputation by stating facts?

    Seems like a reasonable defense.

      • snooggums
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        11 year ago

        So if I drive 100 mph through a school zone it isn’t a fact until I’m convicted?

        • @DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world
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          1 year ago

          More specifically in cases of defamation, it would be on the news agency to show evidence (and that they had the evidence at the time) that what they wrote is true. Now whether they have the evidence is one issue, whether they want to reveal the evidence and by extension their sources is another. So even if the news agency has the evidence to back up its claims, it may still choose to throw in “may” and “allegedly” rather than to have to show these things in court.