Mon Sep 19, 2022 – 10:07 am EDT
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(Reclaim the Net) – Independent Canadian media outlet Rebel News and its co-founder Ezra Levant have been served with a lawsuit threat from an associate professor who previously suggested the outlet should be shut down for “spreading false information.”
The lawsuit threat was issued by solicitors representing Dr. Jean-Christophe Boucher, an associate professor at the University of Calgary, and claims that some of the statements Rebel News and Levant made about Boucher in a June 2022 article and its associated audio and video segments are “false and defamatory.” It also includes notice of intention to bring a defamation lawsuit.
The Rebel News article and its associated segments criticized Boucher’s past tweets about Rebel News and a June 2022 “Disinformation and Russia-Ukrainian war on Canadian Social Media” briefing paper from the University of Calgary that Boucher co-authored.
Part of Rebel News’ criticism of Boucher focused on the briefing paper’s accusation that Levant and others were spreading “pro-Russian narratives” and the briefing paper’s suggestion that “promoting a general mistrust in institutions and elites” and “promoting a specific mistrust of Canada’s
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