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Stories on dlvr.it's Promoted Stories about legal cases and political issues must:
Cite from and contain a case or complaint number, as well as the court of record, for all officially filed legal actions and accusations of illegal conduct referenced in the release
Contain explicit attribution to an authorized source of the material, such as court documents
Be accurate and free of potentially libelous material
Be free of content intended to harm or exact revenge upon an individual or group
Clearly identify opinions in quotes or attribute these statements as opinions belonging to the organization, and not state as fact
Stories on Promoted Stories about legal cases and political matters can:
Contain fair comment of a political or public figure as long as this content does not cross over into libel territory
Express the opinion or official stance of an organization on a public issue or current event, however opinions must be put into the form of a quote and properly attributed to the organization making the statement
Stories on Promoted Stories about legal cases and political matters are not:
Announcements of intentions to file a court case against an individual or group
Open letters
Potentially libelous, which is defined as content that falsely depicts or implies:
A person has committed a crime or is guilty of illegal activity
A person lacks mental capacity
A person has engaged in immoral behavior
A person has a loathsome disease
Interpretations of legal proceedings
All claims about events surrounding a court case need to be attributed to court documents
Until a case is decided, events can not be interpreted, but only detail what court documents allege
Avoid inflammatory language, hyperbole and unattributed opinion
An invasion of someone's privacy
Threatening, abusive, menacing, offensive, violent, intimidating or otherwise objectionable
Intended to harm or exact revenge upon an individual or group, which is defined as content that is deemed intended to:
Incite, advocate or express hatred, bigotry, racism or gratuitous violence
Promote personal opinions attacking an individual or group
Maliciously affect a company's stock
Stalk, defame, defraud, degrade, shame or victimize an individual or group
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