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In the world of social media, retweets and 'likes' have allowed information to spread like wildfire, and unfounded rumors and revenge porn is also easily shared.

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Critic Chiki Ogiue, commenting on an Osaka District Court decision stating that a retweet is equivalent to an endorsement, involving a case in which a journalist was ordered to pay 330,000 yen in compensation to former Osaka Gov Toru Hashimoto for defamation of character through a retweet.

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Critic Chiki Ogiue, commenting on an Osaka District Court decision stating that a retweet is equivalent to an endorsement, involving a case in which a journalist was ordered to pay 330,000 yen in compensation to former Osaka Gov Toru Hashimoto for defamation of character through a retweet.

I think that's reasonable. It's the same standard a newspaper would be held to if they decide to re-print a defamatory letter to the editor.

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