RE:RE:RE:ScreenPro Security......... scrnKeep up spreading the false information and maybe just maybe SCRN will make an example of you for fearmongering on social media platform . You won't be the first one getting sued by a company peter77 .
Defamation in the Conventional Sense
Libel refers to written statements and slander refers to oral statements. |
Libel and slander, known broadly as the tort of defamation, are untrue statements made by an individual that are harmful to someone else's reputation. These statements must be shared to a third party and not just to the individual targeted by the statement. The statements can be about a person, business, organization, group, nation or product that tends to hurt the person's (or business's) reputation. Libel refers to written statements and slander refers to oral statements. Cyber-libel is a term used when someone has posted or e-mailed a statement that is untrue and damaging relating to another individual on the Internet, including in message boards, bulletin boards, blogs, chat rooms, personal websites, social media, social networking sites, or other published articles.
Defamation is, for the most part, a strict liability tort; defendants will be liable whether they acted intentionally or negligently in making and publishing a defamatory statement to a third person.3 In order to recover in an action for defamation, the plaintiff must show that the words about which the plaintiff complained of:
- Are defamatory, in the sense that they would tend to lower the plaintiff's reputation in the eyes of a reasonable person;
- In fact refer to the plaintiff; and,
- Were published to a third person, in the sense that they were communicated to at least one person other than the plaintiff.4