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by mig39 382 days ago
No, this is incorrect, and a quick google search would verify that. Where did you get that idea?

Truth is a _defence_ against libel.

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I did have it technically wrong but practically correct.

Do go have a quick conversation with your favorite AI about this. Ask if anyone in the UK has ever been punished for saying a true thing, and whether the cost on the defendant to prove innocence is not so exorbitant as to allow libel to be weaponized by the wealthy against their critics.

Who decides which facts and truth are "correct"? The same arbiters of what is and isn't "antisemitic" is who simply because speech criticizes IDF or Likud propaganda and/or genocide.