Hacker News Reader

The ADL has been successfully sued for defamation before. Back in 2000 the ADL lost $10.5 million for defaming a Colorado couple:

https://jweekly.com/2000/05/12/judge-fines-adl-10-5-million-...

"On April 28 [2000], the jury found most of the charges leveled by the ADL, based on the tapes, to be 'not substantially true.'"

View on HN

This is one of those cases where saying really shitty things is still not considered “legally” wrong.

“It was just a joke” smh

“ In various conversations, the Quigleys refer to attaching images of oven doors to the Aronsons' house, of burning their children and of wishing their Jewish neighbors had been blown up in a terrorist attack in Israel.”

The Quigleys may have been assholes but getting into a feud with your neighbors, wiretapping their phone, and then publicizing the contents of their conversations about you should probably be discouraged by the law.

The facts of that case are radically different from Musk's accusations.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com