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Scotland Fines Twitter Troll For Defamation
- The Drum, Wednesday, August 7, 2013 3 AM
A Scottish Court has ordered a Twitter troll to pay £40,000 in damages after a defamation case was raised against him. The case is believed to be the first of its kind heard in Scotland. The court found he had defamed an equality campaigner by calling her a paedophile via the social network. David Shuttleton had sent messages with the hashtags “child abuse” and “danger to children”.
