YouTuber who defamed Cardi B agrees to remove defamatory content

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The YouTuber who was ordered to pay Cardi B $4 million after losing a defamation legal battle has agreed to remove various videos and social media posts that contain various statements deemed defamatory by the court.The rapper – real name Belcalis Almanzar – sued YouTuber Latasha Kebe over various claims that had been made in videos she posted to her YouTube channel.During a court hearing in January, Kebe admitted that she didn’t fact-check any of the allegations made about Almanzar in her videos, but claimed that many of those allegations were mere opinion, while also questioning whether her content had caused the kind of emotional distress that the rapper claimed.Meanwhile, Almanzar and her legal team told the court that the untrue allegations spread by Kebe had had a tangible negative impact on the rapper’s mental health.

Almanzar herself discussed how the widespread public speculation about her private life sparked by the rumours that were spread by Kebe made her depressed and suicidal.The jury hearing the case quickly sided with Almanzar and ordered Kebe to pay the $4 million in damages.

But there was also the issue of the videos containing the defamatory statements, some of which continued to be available via Kebe’s channel.Last month Almanzar returned to court seeking an injunction ordering that those videos be taken offline.

Anticipating that Kebe might respond with First Amendment free speech objections, Almanzar’s court filing stated: “Plaintiff is only seeking to require defendants to remove any videos and posts that contain the defamatory statements from their social media accounts and to enjoin defendants from republishing those same statements”.“In other words”, it went on, “the proposed injunction will.