Extraordinarily, the English Supreme Court had to decide whether the words ‘he tried to strangle me’ used on a Facebook post by a woman regarding her ex-husband meant that ‘he tried to kill me’ and damaged his reputation, hence the defamation claim.
The lower court, after an analysis of dictionary meanings of the word ‘strangle’,
Social media users may be responsible for comments made by others and published on their pages which amount to hate speech or harassment. South African courts have already addressed the issue of responsibility for third parties’ comments in Isparta v Richter, where the court found that a Facebook user was liable for defamation based
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