The lies need to do demonstrable harm to someone (and be about that someone) in order for it to be defamation. Lies that just "make the world a worse place" ar

The lies need to do demonstrable harm to someone (and be about that someone) in order for it to be defamation. Lies that just "make the world a worse place" are much harder to deal with. For instance, in the Snyder v. Phelps case, all sorts of nasty (and probably untrue) things were said, yet SCOTUS ruled in favor of Phelps.