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Cybersmear may be coming to a Website near you: a primer for corporate victims; how to respond or combat venomous comments from current or former disgruntled employees presents both legal and non-legal problems.

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From: Defense Counsel Journal
Date: 20030101
Author:Ciarlone, Thomas G., Jr.; Wiechmann, Eric W.

SAMUEL Taylor Coleridge wrote, "Whispering tongues can poison truth." The Internet is no exception to this simple maxim. With one of three Americans logging onto it daily, and at least 350 million users worldwide by 2003, the Internet has the potential to become the electronic rumor mill for the new millennium. (1)

Much of the time, online gossip is merely scurrilous and perhaps embarrassing. For example, corporate executives and their alleged sexual proclivities are favorite topics for online badmouths. (2) Sometimes, however, boorish banter gives way to injurious falsehood. ...

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