- If you were to disparage someone on Facebook with information that you knowingly knew was untrue, could you be charged with slander? With libel?
Explain. ALSO, returning to the NY Times vs. Sullivan case outlined in question 2 above, explain whether Tom Cruise’s attempts to sue the creators of South Park for suggesting in their “Trapped in the Closet” episode that Cruise was homosexual would be successful — AND explain how that case was eventually handled, not by the courts but by ComedyCentral and its parent company Viacom.
