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Newsweek Senior Editor-at-Large Josh Hammer predicts the outcome of US President Donald Trump’s defamation case against the ...

Online gaming communities are incubators of defamation. Competitiveness combined with the ostensibly impenetrable shield of online pseudonyms and geographic distance from your opponent invites ...

Defamation generally refers to a false statement that is made to a third party, either verbally (slander) or in writing (libel), that results in injury to the plaintiff’s reputation. As demonstrated ...

Defamation, slander, and libel are terms that are frequently confused with each other, LegalZoom says. They all fall into the same category of law and have to do with communications that falsely ...