When it comes to handling internet defamation issues and other online reputation attacks—specifically in terms of removing the content from the internet— the solutions are, in one word: fact-dependent. There is no other way to describe it. And there is no perfect solution that can be applied to every instance of...
Whois Inaccuracy Complaints Can Lead to Domain Cancellations, Deletion of Defamatory Websites
Many of the internet defamation attacks regularly discussed on our blog are published on well-established, high-ranking websites such as Ripoff Report, Pissed Consumer or mainstream social media platforms. Oftentimes, however, bad actors will go as far as registering new domains solely to disparage another party or parties on their own...
Fla. Attorney Wins Judgment, Award of Damages for Online Defamation by Former Client
A Florida appellate court has affirmed a trial court’s judgment and award of $350,000 in damages in favor of a Florida attorney who claimed she had been defamed in online reviews. Ann-Marie Giustibelli, a South Florida family law attorney, had represented Copia Blake in a divorce proceeding against Peter Birzon...
How to Report Abuse, Harassment on Twitter
Twitter recently announced that it has updated its Twitter Rules “to clarify what we consider to be abusive behaviour and hateful conduct,” wrote Megan Cristina, the company’s head of Trust & Safety, in a Dec. 30, 2015 blog post. According to Cristina’s blog post (“Fighting abuse to protect freedom of...