I don’t know if she was truly defamed, but defamation is not protected speech.
Read the article and tell me that people should be sued for posted the stuff they posted. I realize that defamation is not protected speech, but we should be careful to give what is protected speech a wide berth, lest we give politicians the power to shut down any speech they don’t like under the argument that it is defamation.
People should not be sued for posting the stuff that was quoted in the article. If the article in question was written without an agenda, then those posts are representative and the whole thing is stupid. However, I’ve never heard of this media outlet before, so it’s possible they quoted the more innocuous posts in an attempt to make her look worse. Luckily this is probably so clear cut it’ll get decided quickly.