Sheila Gunn Reid on Defamation vs. Name-Calling
The True North Field Report
English - December 09, 2019 21:42 - 9 minutes - 21.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsNews Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The word “Nazi” gets thrown around so much on social media, often by leftists who use the term to describe “someone whose opinion I don’t like.” At what point does name-calling become libel and defamation, forcing someone to take legal action? Is it hypocritical to be pro-free speech, but sue for defamation?
True North’s Investigative Journalism Fellow, Lindsay Shepherd, interviews Rebel Media personality Sheila Gunn Reid on her experience being called a "neo-Nazi" by Twitter user and academic Dave Barrett, and why she decided to take legal action against him, resulting in Dave having to pay Sheila $1,200.