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November 21, 2012 01:20 pm PST

Twitter and UK libel law

Britain's Lord McAlpine was recently the un-named subject of a BBC documentary alleging child sexual abuse. On Twitter, journalists, celebrities and clued-in everyday citizens subsequently published comments making it easy to figure out who was on the hook. The problem? There was no evidence that McAlpine abused anyone, and everyone--right down to individual tweeters--are now [...]


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