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A man filed a lawsuit seeking damages against a woman who posted a tweet directed at his employer that alleged that he was a racist person who was engaging in cyberbullying. They both filed complaints accusing each other of libel.
The defendant in the case of Billauer v. Escobar-Eck was president and chief executive officer of a San Diego-based land use and strategic planning firm. On a church’s behalf, she assisted in submitting to San Diego City an application for the development of a church campus.
The plaintiff resided in San Diego and worked for Wells Fargo & Company. He owned property in the area of the proposed project. As a neighborhood activist, he spoke out against it at community meetings on the basis of a “housing crisis.”
The defendant attended public meetings for the project as the church’s representative. At a Zoom meeting, she was making a presentation to a community planning group when an unknown person sent her private messages via Zoom’s chat function.
The messages accused the defendant of dishonesty and said that the sender would ensure that she would be “sent back to where [she] came from.” The defendant later found out that the plaintiff sent these messages.
The plaintiff operated an account on Twitter and contributed to equivalent accounts on Instagram and Facebook. These three accounts were public and were against the project. He made numerous social media posts referring to the defendant.
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