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A Florida jury awards Megan Thee Stallion $75K in her defamation suit accusing blogger Milagro Gramz of being a "puppet" for Tory Lanez, who shot Megan in 2020 (NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/megan-thee-stallion…

Megan Thee Stallion wins defamation civil suit against blogger
A Florida jury sided with Megan Thee Stallion, agreeing a blogger defamed and harassed the rapper after she was shot five years ago by R&B musician Tory Lanez.

A Florida judge grants The Guardian's and others' motions to dismiss Trump Media's defamation lawsuit over reporting on a federal criminal investigation (Sarah Rumpf/Mediaite)
https://www.mediaite.com/lawcrime/judge-throws…

Judge Throws Out Truth Social’s Defamation Lawsuit Against The Guardian
A Florida judge granted motions to dismiss to The Guardian and other defendants in a defamation lawsuit filed by Truth Social's parent company, Truth Media & Technology Group Corp., the latest example of President Donald Trump's legal actions against media companies not holding up in court.

[Redacted] and his big mouth
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2025/11/21/jury-begins-deliberations-in-defamation-case-against-denis-obrien/

Jury begins deliberations in defamation case against Denis O’Brien
Case centres on meaning of words in a press release issued on behalf of businessman in response to a report on media ownership in Ireland

Melania Trump Sued By Journo Michael Wolff Over $1B Defamation Threats
https://deadline.com/2025/10/melania-trump-michael-wolff-lawsuit-defamation-epstein-1236594313/

Google says it has removed its AI model Gemma from AI Studio; in a letter to Google, Sen. Blackburn said it fabricated sexual misconduct allegations against her (Anthony Ha/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/02/goog

Google pulls Gemma from AI Studio after Senator Blackburn accuses model of defamation | TechCrunch
Senator Martha Blackburn argued Gemma’s fabrications are “not a harmless ‘hallucination,’" but rather “an act of defamation produced and distributed by a Google-owned AI model.”

The Pulitzer Board is demanding Trump's taxes, financials & medical history if he’s claiming damages in his #defamation #lawsuit.
✅ #Pulitzer Prize Board members dump broad discovery …

Pulitzer Prize Board members seek discovery of Trump finances, psych records, prescription meds
Pulitzer Prize Board members filed a litany of broad discovery demands in an attempt to beat back Trump's defamation suit over Russia probe reporting awards.

Donald Trump Thursday refiled his $15B defamation suit against @nytimes.com, three of its staff members and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social.
A spokesperson for the newspaper dismissed the suit as a meritless PR stunt.
https://bsky.app/profile/pressfreedomtracker.us/p…

U.S. Press Freedom Tracker (@pressfreedomtracker.us)
Donald Trump Thursday refiled his $15B defamation suit against @nytimes.com, three of its staff members and @penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social. A spokesperson for the newspaper dismissed the suit as a meritless PR stunt. https://pressfreedomtracker.us/blog/media-in-the-courthouse/#Oct-16-2025-NYT

Before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Com members doxx DHS and ICE employees,
--DPRK hackers use EtherHiding malware to turn blockchain into C2 server,
--Trump buys Dominion Voting Systems to be "America-owned,"
--Trump's DoJ sues voting tech company Smartmatic amid defamation suit,
--MI5 points to new Chinese threat disruption,
--Hackers st…

The Com members doxxed DHS and ICE workers
DPRK hackers use EtherHiding malware to turn blockchain into C2 server, Trump buys Dominion Voting Systems to be "America-owned," Trump's DoJ sues voting tech company Smartmatic amid defamation suit, MI5 points to new Chinese threat disruption, much more

'He didn't smell good': E. Jean Carroll pinpoints exact moment Trump lost defamation case - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/donald-trump-e-jean-carroll-2674238737/

What a shame - NOT!!!
Disgraced former political staffer Bruce Lehrmann has lost his appeal
https://www.thenewdaily.com.au/news/people/2025/12/03/bruce-lehrmann-appeal-defamation

Bruce Lehrmann loses appeal against Network Ten defamation loss
Former political staffer Bruce Lehrmann has lost his appeal against a court ruling that he probably raped colleague Brittany Higgins.

Journalist Eoin Higgins says Matt Taibbi is suing him for defamation over Owned, his book about tech billionaires and the left, and "I stand by my work" (Eoin Higgins/The Flashpoint)
https://eoinhiggins.substack.com/p/yes-im-being-sued-by-matt-taibbi<…

Yes, I'm being sued by Matt Taibbi
Does that make me the realest free speech warrior?

I'd be interested find out if AI providers are considered responsible for any defamation their equipment generates and publishes. How much of the law assumes an intent that can't be applied to AI?
Is mens rea something that can be tested in LLM? Is that even a meaningful question? Is it all just libel through negligence?

AI-generated content wrongly accuses fiddler Ashley MacIsaac of being sex offender
HALIFAX - Cape Breton fiddler Ashley MacIsaac says he may have been defamed by Google after it recently produced an AI-generated summary falsely identifying him as a sex offender.

President Trump files a 40-page amended $15B defamation complaint against the NYT and others, after a judge initially dismissed it on Sept. 19 due to its length (The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/16/trump-new-york-times-defam…

Exactly how thoroughly is SCOTUS the lapdog of POTUS?
We'll soon find out whether they're happy to sort out his personal difficulties for him.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-carroll-abuse-defamation-supreme-court-be62…

Trump asks Supreme Court to throw out Carroll verdict
President Donald Trump has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to throw out a jury’s finding in a civil lawsuit that he sexually abused writer E. Jean Carroll at a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s and later defamed her. Trump’s lawyers argued in a lengthy filing with the high court Monday that allegations leading to the $5 million verdict were “propped up” by a “series of indefensible evidentiary rulings” that allowed Carroll’s lawyers to present “highly inflammatory propens…

Suddenly all these fucking bullshit Zionist groups are finding out what it means to get into bed with fucking white supremacists like fucking Musk. You can't negotiate with these people.
#freepalestine #fuckmusk

A federal judge in NY dismisses Drake's defamation lawsuit against record label UMG; Drake sued UMG for publishing and promoting Kendrick Lamar's Not Like Us (Aaron Katersky/ABC News)
https://abcnews.go.com/US/drake-defamation-case-dism…

Drake's defamation case against record label UMG dismissed by federal judge
The defamation case stemmed from a rap battle with Kendrick Lamar.

This Techdirt article mentions that the Trump edit is over a year old, and out the time limit for UK defamation law.
Except, I don't know that's true...
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/11/20/brenda

Brendan Carr Launches Baseless ‘Investigation’ Into PBS, NPR, And BBC To Try And Silence Criticism Of His Weird, Unpopular Boss
Donald Trump’s FCC boss Brendan Carr is opening a fake new “investigation” into PBS, NPR, and BBC in the hopes of suppressing journalistic criticism of the country’s increas…

Google Pulls Gemma from AI Studio After Defamation Claims | The Tech Buzz
https://www.techbuzz.ai/articles/google-pulls-gemma-from-ai-studio-after-defamation-claims

Supreme Court rejects Jones' appeal of $1.4B Sandy Hook judgment | AP News
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-newtown-shooting-alex-jones-infowars-ddcdede90c0c8d2710c768fd0ea9946f

Trump vs BBC
Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion
over a documentary he claims removed portions of his speech on Jan 6, 2021,
in which he urged supporters to protest the 2020 election results peacefully.
Lawsuit's claims
The lawsuit accuses the BBC of defamation and violations of Florida’s Deceptive and Unfair Trade Practices Act,
seeking $5 billion in damages for each claim.
BBC's response
The BBC says it will defend the lawsu…

Trump sues BBC for $10B over edited Jan. 6 speech
President Donald Trump is suing the BBC for $10 billion over a documentary that edited his Jan. 6, 2021, speech at the Capitol Ellipse.

President Trump files a $5B defamation lawsuit against the BBC, alleging it intentionally doctored a Panorama documentary to misrepresent his January 6 speech (Dan Mangan/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/12/16/trump-bbc-panorama-election-defamation-lawsuit.…

Smartmatic and Fox News ask a judge to rule in their favor in a $2.7B defamation case over Fox's 2020 election claims; a ruling is expected in the coming weeks (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/business/media/sm…

Smartmatic and Fox Urge Judge to Decide Defamation Case
The case centers on false vote-rigging claims broadcast by Fox News during the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Smartmatic defamation case:
'Sold my soul to the devil’: Fox News staffers blast network in explosive court filing - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/fox-news-2674206251/

The BBC says "as we have made clear previously, we will be defending" against Trump's defamation lawsuit and "we are not going to make further comment" (Christal Hayes/BBC)
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpvd81470v1o

BBC says it will defend Trump defamation lawsuit over Panorama speech edit
The US president is requesting $5bn (£3.7bn) in damages, according to court documents filed in Florida.

Country singer Alexis Wilkins, who is dating FBI director Kash Patel, has filed a $5 million defamation lawsuit against a Utah social media influencer — arguing the man fabricated his claim that she’s a honeypot' Israeli spy
https://www.sltrib.com/news/politics/2025/

What a tale for our times! The cancelee's redemptive account of how he was cancelled by allegedly false allegations of #MeToo-era sexual abuse, cancelled by defamation claims from former colleagues who allege that his allegations about their behaviour (including supporting his alleged victim in the aftermath of the alleged attack) constitute vicious attacks.

Legal threats by lawyer and magazine editor halt Irish journalist’s book on #MeToo claim
Olaf Tyaransen’s book details effect of online sex assault allegation

Not wanting to give attention to professional attention seekers, but someone threatening to sue... someone for defamation in the UK for a Sora AI video in which their AI-double announces they're gay, is where we are right now.

A federal appeals court upholds a lower court's 2023 dismissal of Trump's defamation suit against CNN for calling his 2020 stolen election claims the "Big Lie" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/trump-cnn-lawsuit-dismissed…

Appeals Court Rejects Donald Trump’s Attempt To Revive Lawsuit Against CNN
Trump had sued the network over the use of the term "The Big Lie."

Anti-Defamation League Creates ‘Mamdani Monitor’ Tip Line for Antisemitism Reports - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/nyregion/zohran-mamdani-monitor-antisemitism-adl.html

BBC Newsnight spliced footage in 2022 of Trump's Jan. 6 speech and then ignored concerns; Trump's legal team says the BBC "engaged in a pattern of defamation" (Telegraph)
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/13/bbc-doctored-t…

SCOTUS declines to hear a challenge by Alex Jones to the $1.4B libel judgment awarded to Sandy Hook families; Jones argues the judgment violates his 1A rights (Dietrich Knauth/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/us-supreme-c

Dominion Voting settles its lawsuit against OANN for defamation over 2020 election rigging claims (Jeremy Barr/@jeremymbarr)
https://x.com/jeremymbarr/status/1974233050373398656

Jeremy Barr (@jeremymbarr) on X
Another 2020 media lawsuit just got resolved: Dominion Voting Systems has ended their lawsuit against OAN

Smartmatic v. Fox News: a Smartmatic lawyer says Rupert and Lachlan Murdoch authorized a plan for Fox News to embrace Trump's 2020 claims to win back viewers (Jeremy Barr/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/dec/02/rupert-lachlan-mur…