Online Comments and Defamation

Defamation or No Defamation

his, Mrs. Lorimer, who was ill. Dr. Stuart agreed and called on the following day. He was then told to consult with Dr. Brougham regarding the patient, and accordingly made an appointment with Dr. Brougham for tho following day, which that gentleman was unable to keep. Dr. Stuart paid his second visit, however, and on the third day, the 11th July, both he and Dr. Brougham held a consultation, s...

Who Should Be Liable for Online Anonymous Defamation?

The advent of Web 2.0 technologies and applications has enabled average people—who were previously mere consumers of online content—to publish their own content on various websites, such as blogs, consumer-evaluation platforms (such as Amazon, eBay, and TripAdvisor), news websites (through reader comments), social networking services (such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn), media-sharing webs...

ORFEL: super-fast detection of defamation and illegitimate promotion in online recommendation

What if a, so long, successful company starts to receive a torrent of low-valued (one or two stars) recommendations in its mobile apps from multiple users within a short (say one month) period of time? Is it a legitimate evidence that the apps have lost quality, or an intentional plan (via lockstep behavior) to steal market share through defamation? In case of a systematic attack to one’s reput...

The Defamation Case

News Comments: Exploring, Modeling, and Online Prediction

Online news agents provide commenting facilities for their readers to express their opinions or sentiments with regards to news stories. The number of user supplied comments on a news article may be indicative of its importance, interestingness, or impact. We explore the news comments space, and compare the log-normal and the negative binomial distributions for modeling comments from various ne...