Quaden Bayles, the nine-year-old Murri boy who appeared in a video that went viral, is suing News Corp and its high-profile columnist Miranda Devine for defamation. In February Quaden’s mother, Yarraka Bayles, posted a video saying, “This is what bullying does”, after her son who has dwarfism was bullied at school. In the confronting video Quaden said “Give me a knife, I want to kill myself.”Joe Hildebrand (@Joe_Hildebrand) It is so weird and wrong to even need to prove this but for anyone who still believes the ridiculous conspiracy theory Quaden Bayles is an adult, here he is on @Studio10au in 2015, aged four. Devine retweeted the Twitter user @bubblebathgirl, who claimed Quaden was an actor whose mother posted a fake sobbing video and collected $300,000 in donations. Hurts genuine bullying victims.”Photograph: TwitterWhen the Twitter user @CoffeyJPC responded by saying “It’s a crime if it is a scam.

Source: The Guardian August 05, 2020 11:48 UTC