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the UK's Solicitors Regulation Authority is prosecuting the libel law firm (Carter Ruck) that silenced critics of the massive OneCoin ponzi scheme (2nd only to madoff) that imploded back in 2017.

sadly there's a million other cases of Big Law firms openly aiding and abetting out and out frauds that will go unpunished, but it's nice to see at least some kind of minimal attempt at justice

(the story of OneCoin is completely insane; worth a read if you haven't run across it before)

taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/12/18/ca

Tax Policy Associates · How libel firm Carter-Ruck recklessly enabled a $4bn fraudBy Dan Neidle
#uk#ukpol#carterRuck

In the PH, an arrest warrant was issued against veteran showbiz columnist Cristy Fermin, and her co-hosts Rommel Villamor and Wendell Alvarez, due to the cyber libel case filed by actress Bea Alonzo. Alonzo said both talk show hosts and their co-hosts continued to defame her through their vlogs and columns, even mentioning an unproven claim about her not paying the correct tax.

#Philippines #Asian #Celebrity #Actor #TVhost #YouTube #Influencer #Libel #Vlog

rappler.com/entertainment/cele

RAPPLER · Arrest warrant issued against Cristy Fermin over Bea Alonzo cyber libel caseThe court sets bail at P48,000

‘An absolute disgrace’: John McDonnell MP criticises UK government for proscribing Palestine Action

youtube.com/shorts/HxkyD2KzV0Q

McDonnell voiced his worries over the move, saying he had not seen “an assault on civil liberties like this, maybe for a generation,” and vowed to fight against the decision alongside others in the House of Commons…

This morning, NPR aided and abetted the Drump’s and Fox News’s lies about sending the National Guard into Los Angeles. Newsom is suing Fox News for libel for reporting Drump’s lie. Drump lied that he and Newsom had discussed Drump’s plan to send in the guard on a call the day before doing so. Fox News reported this lie as fact, even though Fox News knew that Drump was lying because there is no evidence of such a call between Drump and Newsom.

NPR fudged the story by reporting that Fox reported that Drump had the conversation in a call *prior* to sending in the guard. However, the only phone conversation between Drump and Newsom was a call several days before and it did not address the issue of sending in the guard. NPR fudged by reporting that it was a *prior* conversation rather than making clear that Drump and Fox had lied in specifying that the conversation was the day before.

#media#NPR#FoxNews

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

ON A SERIOUS NOTE
“christian” zionists hate anybody semitic and Arab so much, they support the #genocide of #Christian #Palestinians
theguardian.com/world/2025/apr

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.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_d

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

The Guardian · ‘They are trying to make it unbearable’: Jerusalem Christians face Easter under Israeli crackdownBy Hannah Ellis-Petersen

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."

flip.it/AVGQcJ

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