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While I'm sympathetic to this position, I can also easily see an argument from the NYT's side that "fraud" is a specific criminal allegation, and as such using
by danaris 4y ago
While I'm sympathetic to this position, I can also easily see an argument from the NYT's side that "fraud" is a specific criminal allegation, and as such using it in an article like this could open them up to libel or defamation suits.
- enraged_camel 4y agoI mean, they can always call it "alleged fraud", right? They use that kind of language to describe all sorts of alleged crimes.
- danaris 4y agoThey can, which is part of why I'm so sympathetic to the GP's position.