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Comment by shkkmo

4 months ago

I'm not sure what exactly you mean by "good faith". The legal standard is "actual malice" which means you had to have either known you were wrong or recklessly disregarded being wrong. Just saying something false about a public figure in a way that causes damages is not enough.

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