Blogger Fined $60K For Telling The Truth

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Submission + - Blogger Fined $60K For Telling The Truth (startribune.com)

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jfruhlinger

on Monday March 14, 2011 @05:24PM

jfruhlinger writes: ""Johnny Northside," a Minneapolis blogger with less than 500 readers a day revealed that a University of Minnesota researcher studying mortgage fraud had been involved in a fraudulent mortgage himself; the blog post was at least partially responsible for the researcher losing his job. The researcher then sued the blogger and won — despite the blogger having his facts straight. Johnny Northside plans to appeal the verdict."

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