Canadian internet Defamation ruling The plaintiffs were a pharmaceutical company who shares were listed on the TSX Venture Exchange and the US over-the-counter market OTCQB, as well as the company’s CEO and CFO. In 2019, they commenced an action against a number of unidentified “John Doe” defendants for defamatory statements published from 2014 through 2018 on a website known as Stockhouse.com, which was aimed at investors in Canada and the US.
The Stockhouse.com site included a function called a “Bullboard,” which provided an internet chat forum on which users could publish self-generated content about a listed company. Users of the website could also communicate with other users privately using a service akin to internal messaging in Facebook Messenger or Twitter Direct Messages, and using pseudonyms to avoid disclosing their true identities.
The plaintiffs alleged that the defendants published defamatory statements on the “Bullboard” of the plaintiff’s company using pseudonyms. The plaintiffs recognized one of the posters as a former employee but they could not identify any of the others.
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