re: #80 Obdicut

I’d like to note that the ignorant repetition of a lie— as in, not knowing that it is, in fact, a lie— is not slander. Or libel.

What if the party repeating the lie was totally derelict in failing to perform even the most basic fact-checking or even speaking to the victim?
Even if they can escape by a technical loophole such as the one you described, the characterization of their rush to judgment as being slanderous is hardly unfair, IMO.