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Facebook owner Meta has lost a defamation lawsuit, ruled in an EU court, versus an Austria-based lawmaker.
Even though the settlement is small, the ruling has major free speech implications.
Last year, former Greens party politician Eva Glawischnig-Piesczek won a settlement of €4,000 ($4,535) in damages that the Vienna commercial court ordered the social media company to pay.
The complaint was over a fictitious account that allegedly “defamed” the politician to a global audience.
The plaintiff cited that Facebook refused to delete messages from the fake account.
The case has dragged on since 2016 when Glawischnig-Piesczek first requested Facebook remove a picture of her posted with “defamatory” content. In 2019 the EU’s top court ruled national courts in Europe can force social networks to remove defamatory content worldwide.
The Vienna commercial court specializes in corporate law cases that affect Austria-based corporations. The Vienna court agreed with the plaintiff that the defamatory content was harmful to Glawischnig-Piesczek’s public image. The text of the post characterized the lawmaker as participating in illegal activities. The court agreed with the politician’s argument that she has a right to control her own image.On December 9, 2021 Vienna court ordered Facebook to inform its users of the slander within 15 days. Facebook must run a banner visible at the top of its Austria home page for six months and avoid publishing the plaintiff’s photo with insulting text. The social media giant has not appealed the ruling. Meta has announced it will not add any further comments about the case beyond the judgement published on its website.Now that Glawischnig-Piesczek has learned the identity of the woman who set up the fake Facebook account, she has the option to sue her.The politician’s attorney Maria […]
Will America-First News Outlets Make it to 2023?
Things are looking grim for conservative and populist news sites.
There’s something happening behind the scenes at several popular conservative news outlets. 2021 was bad, but 2022 is proving to be disastrous for news sites that aren’t “playing ball” with the corporate media narrative. It’s being said that advertisers are cracking down, forcing some of the biggest ad networks like Google and Yahoo to pull their inventory from conservative outlets. This has had two major effects. First, it has cooled most conservative outlets from discussing “taboo” topics like Pandemic Panic Theater, voter fraud, or The Great Reset. Second, it has isolated those ad networks that aren’t playing ball.
Certain topics are anathema for most ad networks. Speaking out against vaccines or vaccine mandates is a certain path to being demonetized. Highlighting voter fraud in the 2020 and future elections is another instant advertising death penalty. Throw in truthful stories about climate change hysteria, Critical Race Theory, and the border crisis and it’s easy to understand how difficult it is for America-First news outlets to spread the facts, share conservative opinions, and still pay the bills.
Without naming names, I have been told of several news outlets who have been forced to either consolidate with larger organizations or who have backed down on covering certain topics out of fear of being “canceled” by the ad networks. I get it. This is a business for many of us and it’s not very profitable. Those of us who do this for a living are often barely squeaking by, so loss of additional revenue can often mean being forced to make cuts. That means not being able to cover the topics properly. Its a Catch-22: Tell the truth and lose the money necessary to keep telling the truth, or avoid the truth and make enough money to survive. Those who have chosen survival simply aren’t able to spread the truth properly.
We will never avoid the truth. The Lord will provide if it is His will. Our job is simply to share the facts, spread the Gospel, and educate as many Americans as possible while exposing the forces of evil.
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JD Rucker