IANAL but I looked this up when the ElonJet story broke and even in states with very strong anti-SLAPP statutes, the defense can get really expensive really fas

IANAL but I looked this up when the ElonJet story broke and even in states with very strong anti-SLAPP statutes, the defense can get really expensive really fast. In the California case Hill v. Heslep et al. the final legal cost to the defendants paid out after they won the anti-SLAPP motion was $104,747.75 [1]. Assuming half this cost was borne by the publisher and the rest was evenly split between the other three defendants, that's still tens of thousands of dollars and a lot of stress before the case is thrown out. Coffeezilla is playing with fire but I think with his reach he'd be successful with a legal defense fund as well as lawyers working pro bono and recovering their fees via the plaintiffs. [1] https://www.gibsondunn.com/recent-developments-in-california-anti-slapp-case-law-summer-2021/ https://www.gibsondunn.com/recent-developments-in-california...