New Technology : Think Before You Post: Can You Be Sued For Libelous Tweets and Facebook Posts?

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In most countries around the world, saying or writing something that’s untrue and harms the reputation of another person is a civil offense. While this has been the case for centuries, most people were essentially immune from prosecution — unless you had a public platform reaching a wide audience, meeting the bar for defamation was next to impossible. Social media changed this. Now anyone with a Facebook or Twitter account can theoretically reach the entire Internet using population. If the message being shared is positive, the Internet can do wonderful things. If the message being shared is defamatory, there might...

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