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by Perceval 321 days ago
Even private written communications can be libel if they are false and injure the reputation of the subject.
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mensetmanusman 321 days ago
Not as part of a mass hack where one could just argue it’s fake data.
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whamlastxmas 321 days ago
It isn’t that straight forward. If you wrote it and it got published, it still counts as published even if you didn’t publish it yourself. The crux of libel is that you made it permanent somehow by writing it.
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Gigachad 321 days ago
Who's to say you wrote it and that the hackers didn't just insert that in the dataset?
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