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Originally Posted by epchick
You've got the right idea, except in this case it isn't slander, its libel. Slander is oral defamation, while libel is written.
If this guy decided to take it to trial he would have to prove "actual malice." If I can remember my Law of Mass Comm class correctly, the guy would have to prove that the creator of the group created the group without proper knowledge and didn't regard the validity of the information.
So he would have to prove that the creator of the group KNEW the information was false, but that they didn't care.
Actual malice is reeeeeeally hard to prove a lot of the time, especially the fact about knowing whether the information was actually true.
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This is correct. In order to win a libel suit, the guy would have to prove that the person who created this group knew the information she was supplying was false and that she was intending to cause harm to him. First amendment protects her.
There are a ton of groups on Facebook similar to this one. They're not all claiming rape, but other atrocities.
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