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Originally Posted by coolbar  The top of the post says "Companies to boycott"
If someone wrote that about me it would be libel |
Libel - Defamatory statement about a person that is published and thereby exposes that person to public ridicule. Libelous statements are not the same as slanderous statements. Libelous statements are printed, malicious (i.e., printed without just cause), and may be true; however, slanderous statements are spoken, not printed, and are not true. A lawsuit charging a publisher or advertiser with libel may be lost if it can be proven that the allegedly libeled individual is a celebrity (in the public eye) and that the statement in question was published because of its newsworthiness, not because of malicious intent on the part of the publisher or advertiser.
so I found a definition online for 'libel' and obviously this is just one of the definitions. but anyways, the post is not defamatory, or malicious. to me it's more like a simple fact.