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minus-squareabraxas@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoInstead of arguing over something well-established and well-documented, I’m just going to leave an NPR explanation of it for you or others to read at your leisure. https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/03/21/394273902/on-libel-and-the-law-u-s-and-u-k-go-separate-ways#:~:text=In American courts%2C the burden,of proof%2C and typically loses. It might surprise you, but you can prove a negative in a court of law, and you actually have to in the US for defamation, unlike European libel laws.
Instead of arguing over something well-established and well-documented, I’m just going to leave an NPR explanation of it for you or others to read at your leisure.
https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2015/03/21/394273902/on-libel-and-the-law-u-s-and-u-k-go-separate-ways#:~:text=In American courts%2C the burden,of proof%2C and typically loses.
It might surprise you, but you can prove a negative in a court of law, and you actually have to in the US for defamation, unlike European libel laws.