r/MurderedByWords Dec 14 '24

#1 Murder of Week Here’s to free speech!

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u/GarbageCleric Dec 14 '24

Billionaires can also fund the legal costs to destroy organizations that report things that upset them.

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u/Literotamus Dec 15 '24

Libel is really difficult to prove. Fox paid out a lot of money to avoid it in court recently, but that was a really easy case against them. They’d spent months making up nonsense about the company’s product.