• ccunning@lemmy.world
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    13 hours ago

    Two South Florida police officers claim Ben Affleck and Matt Damon’s recent action thriller “The Rip” used too many real-life details in its fictionalized narrative, causing harm to the officers’ personal and professional reputations, according to a defamation lawsuit.

    From m-w.com (emphasis mine):

    the act of communicating false statements about a person that injure the reputation of that person

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      4 hours ago

      Not that I agree with them, but their point is that they used real life details alongside fiction.

      Like if I made a movie with all of your personal info but made your character a pedophile.

    • Fredselfish@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

      So those two cops personally broke those laws. Well then they need to be put in a prison. Funny way of confessing their crimes.