Rachel Riley has been awarded £50,000 (€57,000) in damages by a High Court judge after suing a political blogger for libel over an article alleging she was a “serial abuser” and had bullied a teenager. Ms Riley, who appears on the Channel 4 show Countdown, sued Mike Sivier after he published an article on his website Vox Political in January 2019 with the headline “Serial abuser Rachel Riley to receive ‘extra protection’ – on grounds that she is receiving abuse”. The article discussed tweets posted as part of an online debate on antisemitism in the Labour Party, some of which...
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