| Ryuu96 said: Seeing Imane is taking legal action, is there any chance of anything to come from this? If there was justice she would sue the fuck out of Elon Musk, The X Company, Donald Trump, Logan Paul, JK Rowling, etc. But she's filing in France and only against X. She should go after the French politicians and Italian politicians that helped spread this shit too, I hope the government of Algeria backs her. But I'm not a legal expert so I don't know her best course of action. I remember in the USA, Elon Musk somehow got away with accusing a British rescue diver (very publicly) of being a pedo while the diver was trying to rescue children, so clearly America's libel laws are fucking awful and Imane probably has no hope there, not sure about France's. |
American defamation laws place a heavy burden of proof on the plaintiff to disprove the defamatory statement, as well as to prove that the defamatory statement caused damage to the person's reputation. It's easier to for a plaintiff to win if they can prove monetary damages. If the plaintiff is famous, they place an additional burden of proving "reckless disregard for the truth" on the plaintiff.
Crazily enough, Unsworth's lawyer was Lin Wood, who surrendered his law license rather than face disciplinary action for propagating "widespread election fraud" theories following the 2020 election. He was also famous as the lawyer who successfully defended Richard Jewell against false accusations that he had perpetrated the Centennial Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta.
