Which of the Following Statements Is True About Defenses to Defamation

question 35

Multiple Choice

Which of the following statements is true about defenses to defamation?

• A) A person having absolute privilege can be sued for defamation if the statement is false.
• B) A conditional privilege does not protect a defendant against any false statements.
• C) If the plaintiff is a public figure, the plaintiff will have to prove that the defamation was made with malice.
• D) Politicians are not subject to conditional privilege.

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Definitions:

Distribution

In statistics, refers to the way in which values of a variable are spread or distributed across a range.

Null Hypothesis

It is a statistical hypothesis that asserts there is no significant effect or difference, serving as a default assumption until evidence suggests otherwise.

Normally Distributed

A symmetric probability distribution centered around the mean, illustrating that occurrences are more frequent near the mean and less frequent as they move away from it.

Critical Value

A threshold value used in hypothesis testing, which a test statistic must exceed to reject the null hypothesis.