Their Evil Lies in the Grapevine Effect: Assessment of Damages in Defamation by Social Media
The number of cases of defamation by social media is growing. This article examines the principles of assessment of damages as they apply to those cases. In particular, the article examines the concept of the ‘grapevine effect’: a metaphor used to explain the basis for recovery of general damages fo...
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LexisNexis Butterworths
2015
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| Online Access: | http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2811967 http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/30905 |