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McAlpine is also pursuing libel action against people who used Twitter to repeat the defamatory claim.
Last week, Breitbart News, formerly run by Trump's new chief strategist, Stephen K Bannon, announced that it "is preparing a multi-million dollar lawsuit against a major media company for its baseless and defamatory claim that Breitbart News is a 'white nationalist website'".
Presenting evidence that an allegedly defamatory claim might actually be true at this stage in the legal process is "unique but not unprecedented," says Matthew Kelley, a media lawyer at Levine Sullivan Koch & Schulz LLP in Washington, D.C. (The firm also represents AAAS, which publishes Science Insider.
She then "encouraged" her colleagues to "find others who would support and repeat" her defamatory claim, according to the suit.
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Scarlett Johansson is suing a French author over claims that his fictional book makes "defamatory claims about her private life".
It is understood Google has removed hundreds of references to the defamatory claims after requests from Mosley's solicitors.
The court found ARY guilty of making 24 separate defamatory claims against Rahman and ordered the channel to pay damages of £185,000.
In a humiliating climbdown, the TV expert admitted that he used false names and accounts on social media to make defamatory claims about the Turveys.
The statement released on her behalf added: "Ghislaine Maxwell's original response to the lies and defamatory claims remains the same".
It said that the CPS had gone well beyond its statutory duty by making what it said were defamatory claims that were not backed up by any evidence.
Johansson's lawyer said it was a "violation and fraudulent and illegal exploitation of her name, her reputation and her image," and that it contained "defamatory claims about her private life".
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