> Actual malice in the legal sense has nothing to do with the regular meaning of those words in English. It instead requires that the defamer have seriously ent

> Actual malice in the legal sense has nothing to do with the regular meaning of those words in English. It instead requires that the defamer have seriously entertained doubts about the truth of the statements, and published them anyways. How is that different from the ordinary English meaning? Or does American English differ from British English in this regard? From the Cambridge Dictionary[1]: "the intention to do something wrong and esp. to cause injury: " [1] https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/malice https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/malice