VOLUME 22
A JOURNAL OF PUBLIC INTERESTS SINCE 2000
SLAPPED!
NEWS
The computer repairman with Hunter Biden's laptop lost his lawsuit against Twitter and has to pay the company's legal fees
The computer repairman with Hunter Biden's laptop lost his lawsuit against Twitter and has to pay the company's legal fees

BUSINESS INSIDER
This news piece is rated 2.5 stars for news analysis errors.  Story by Madison Hall.   [Editor's comment:  SLAPP stands for "Strategic Litigation Against Public Participation".  Modern anti-SLAPP statutes such as Florida's were enacted to protect individual whistle blowers against litigation abuse by large corporations.  Use of the anti-SLAPP statute to award legal fees and costs to Twitter turns this statute on its head--InternetZorro]

Mac Isaac alleged that he was threatened after his business was identified from the story, ultimately forcing him to close his shop and sue Twitter for damages. He said Twitter spread "the false belief that Plaintiff is a hacker" because the company warned about its hacked materials policy when referring to the NY Post article.

But the judge specifically noted that the platform itself never mentioned Mac Isaac or the name of his business in its several posts on the matter. The judge specifically said that news sites reported the business owner's name, never Twitter itself.

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Posted on Thursday, September 02, 2021
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