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2016-12-05 -Land of the Free

Website Labeled 'Fake News' Threatens To Sue WaPo For Defamation

A lawyer for Naked Capitalism accuses WaPo of running a debunked list of “fake news” sites in the “sensational” story compiled by a dubious team of researchers, without substantiating their claims or giving Naked Capitalism a chance to respond to the allegation. The Washington Post’s actions constitute defamation, the lawyer writes in the letter published Monday.

“You did not provide even a single example of ‘fake news’ allegedly distributed or promoted by Naked Capitalism or indeed any of the 200 sites on the PropOrNot blacklist,” James A. Moody writes. “You provided no discussion or assessment of the credentials or backgrounds of these so-called ‘researchers’ (Clint Watts, Andrew Weisburd, and J.M. Berger and the ‘team’ at PropOrNot), and no discussion or analysis of the methodology, protocol or algorithms such ‘researchers’ may or may not have followed.”

Naked Capitalism is a finance and economics blog started in December, 2006, with a stated goal of “shedding light on the dark and seamy corners of finance.”

Posted by DarthVader 2016-12-05 14:49|| || Front Page|| [21 views ] Top

#1 Par for the course for the left. If you can't intimidate, discredit. Then do a character assassination and drive them from the public eye.

Posted by DarthVader 2016-12-05 14:51|| 2016-12-05 14:51|| Front Page Top

#2 Enough talk - just sue.

Posted by Raj 2016-12-05 15:38|| 2016-12-05 15:38|| Front Page Top

#3 Do or do not, there is no threaten.

Posted by AlanC 2016-12-05 16:04|| 2016-12-05 16:04|| Front Page Top

#4 This was always only ever about squelching dissenting voices. Just sue already.

Posted by Iblis 2016-12-05 20:00|| 2016-12-05 20:00|| Front Page Top

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