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American defamation law protects the publisher rather than the person a story harms, and the incentives that follow are all wrong.
Drawn from what Bill Ackman said
SubjectAmerica
Mental modelIncentives
What Bill Ackman actually said
- Bill Ackman Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management
The problem is the defamation law in the US is so favorable to the publisher, to the media, and so unfavorable to the victim. And the incentives are all wrong.
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