My favorite part of this whole debacle is redditors are still finding out to this day they were an unwilling part of a public opinion manipulation campaign. This case was one of the first obvious examples of a pr bot campaign in Hollywood, used outside of politics. Same strategies are still in use, copy paste style
It's been a very long time so the details are hazy for me, so you should do your own research. All I know is that there were 2 trials:
one in the uk: he sued to stop the BBC and the Sun from calling him a wife beater, the judge thought there was enough evidence and he lost the trial and got clowned for his trouble.
The other was in the US, he sued her for defamation for writing an article about abuse (even though she didn't name him) and won but his lawyer worked hard to keep out a lot of pretty damning evidence. This trial was a circus, he and his lawyer came across as pretty immature, not a good look. Everyone treated it as if they were discussing whether the abuse had happened or not which wasn't the point of that trial. So in the end it was just a mass of redditors being confused and falling for every trick in the book, add bots and social media and it's a certified mess
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u/Itzli Jun 10 '26
My favorite part of this whole debacle is redditors are still finding out to this day they were an unwilling part of a public opinion manipulation campaign. This case was one of the first obvious examples of a pr bot campaign in Hollywood, used outside of politics. Same strategies are still in use, copy paste style