#defamatory

JUST IN: French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife Brigitte have filed a U.S. defamation lawsuit against far-right conspiracy theorist and podcaster Candace Owens, who claimed that France’s First Lady “is in fact a man.” The 218-page lawsuit, filed in Delaware on Wednesday, accuses Owens of publishing “outlandish, defamatory, and far-fetched fictions”, chief among them that Brigitte Macron was born male under the name Jean-Michel Trogneux.

A fascinating profile of Margaret "Molly" Brown that seeks to dispel the inaccurate view of her as an ign'ant, singin', dancin' hillbilly tomboy golddigger saloon girl propagated by fictionalized trash media such as the Debbie Reynolds film that bore her name, sort of, as she'd never gone by "Molly," to begin with, but the songwriter found it easier to work with.

Hello, Anon:

I think the theory behind this strategy is that it’s pointless to respond to blatant, nonsensical lies, because it may only inadvertently validate the article in some people’s minds with a public response, by entertaining BS with any kind of response.

There are those who have already made up their minds about what’s true about Armie Hammer, without any actual evidence to prove that he did any of the ridiculous things that Julie Miller claims in both of her hit pieces in VF against Armie Hammer. So there’s no point in it.

CNN  —  For all the interest in big-name witnesses and eye-opening private text messages, at the core of the defamation lawsuit filed by Dominion Voting Systems against Fox News are 20 specific broadcasts and tweets in which the voting company says Fox knowingly promoted lies, destroying its reputation. According to the lawsuit, all 20 statements took place between November 8, 2020, and January…