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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.

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  1. 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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