On June 27, Tanvir Farid of Toronto was ordered to pay $4.7 million to 53 plaintiffs after decade\u002Dlong campaign of online harassment
“The plaintiffs have been the subject of a targeted campaign with postings on websites for some ending up on websites devoted to posting salacious content.”levied in 2019 against Kevin J. Johnston for defaming Paramount Fine Foods founder Mohamad Fakih, after Johnston falsely accused him of funding terrorism.
Lee Brenner, a lawyer with Los Angeles-based law firm Venable LLP, who had been contacted by some of Farid’s U.S. victims.Advertisement 4“These were real harms — being called by your family and friends, or your children’s family and friends, saying that it’s all over the internet that you’re a sexual predator, or a criminal, or a racist, and what that’s like for people,” he said.
formerly been Farid’s supervisor, and another was a woman who had turned him down on an online dating service. “Counsel for the plaintiffs submit that the common denominator which unites all the plaintiffs is ‘rejection’; that is, each one of them had rejected Mr. Farid,” wrote Ramsay.Article content
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