Comment on Not even close

CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

• tourist@lemmy.world ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Muddy waters here

  From what I’ve gathered

  1. There may be photos being released soon, and her legal team is trying to preempt it by denying it.

  idk how law works, but I don’t know what preempting it is meant to do

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  2. there is supposedly a (plausibly deepfaked) image floating around the boomer side of the internet:

  I haven’t seen it nor tried to find it. Last time I checked Facebook, I learned several horrific slurs for ethnic groups I did not even know existed

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  3. Maybe, she finally caught wind of her name being mentioned alongside Epstein

  I’ve met people who just check the news and/or the internet once per year, if ever

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  4. Some other Trump administration political strategy

  I’m legit not intelligent enough to understand nor recall the explanation there

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  Probably a legal thing. Photos/Documents may be releasing soon

  If not, yeah…

  Just more bizarre

  Like if I announced:

  “I did not rinse my unwashed genitals in the spahetti after I cooked it”

  In the middle of a family dinner.

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• CountVon@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  No one knows what story she’s denying, or what images she’s claiming are fake. The most likely possibility is that someone is preparing to release a story on the links between her and Epstein. It’s standard practice in journalism to contact the subject of a piece, inform them of the contents of that piece, and request their comments. A request for comment on an upcoming story seems a likely trigger for this reaction. The entire speech strikes me as a thinly veiled threat, essentially saying “If you publish your story I will sue you for defamation.”

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  • DokPsy@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Can’t sue for defamation if the commentary is either true or had reasonable belief to be so

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    • forrgott@lemmy.zip ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      That’s… not how it works. They absolutely can sue, but they’re not supposed to be able to win (or the case ought to be thrown, not completely sure). With all the current bullshit I’m not sure what would happen, though.

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      • DokPsy@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        While you are pedantically correct, I was speaking with the understanding that frivolous lawsuits can be ignored. Like, you could sue a person you’ve never met for stealing your intellectual property that you don’t have with absolutely no evidence or for wearing a blue shirt but no one would reasonably count those as actual suits.

        Defamation requires falsehoods based on precedent and case law so a suit that alleges defamation when the person spoke no lies is not a reasonable suit and doesn’t really count

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