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Man Who Claims to Have Invented Email Sues Gawker for $35M

Shiva Ayyadurai, an MIT graduate who claims to have invented email in the late 1970s, is suing Gawker Media for $35 million for defamation. Ayyadurai filed the lawsuit in federal court in Boston this week, claiming that Gawker's tech site, Gizmodo, posted two "false and highly defamatory articles" about him in 2012. The suit alleges that the news site accuses Ayyadurai of being a fraud.

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