Sunday March 13, 2011
Tweeter Twatted:
Libellous Tweet Costs Councillor £3,000
A councillor has made history by being the first person to admit making a libellous comment on Twitter.
Colin Elsbury agreed to pay electoral rival Eddie Talbot £3,000 in compensation after falsely claiming that Talbot had been removed by police from a polling station.
From BBC News:
Mr Talbot's solicitor Nigel Jones told the court that the implication of the Twitter statement was that his client had been forcibly removed for criminal or disreputable conduct, adding that the allegation was completely untrue and defamatory.
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