Jack Monroe begins libel proceedings against Katie Hopkins Read moreThe case centred on a Twitter exchange in May 2015, in which Hopkins confused two well-known anti-austerity commentators: Monroe and Laurie Penny, a columnist for the New Statesman. Hopkins attributed the opinion to Monroe and tweeted to her then account @MsJackMonroe: “Scrawled on any memorials recently? Shortly after Hopkins’ original message, Monroe, a contributor to the Guardian, tweeted in response: “I have NEVER ‘scrawled on a memorial’. Monroe told the court the exchange had led to abuse from others on Twitter including death threats, and that the affair had been “an 18-month unproductive, devastating nightmare”. On this occasion, the cost of renting that gob was particularly high.”Predictably the judgment was rapidly trending on Twitter.

Source: The Guardian March 10, 2017 14:17 UTC