The Mad Gasser of Mattoon: America’s Strangest Phantom Attacker
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After two politicians in France endured a digital tongue-lashing from a prolific critic that had been posting nasty things about them on Twitter, the politicians took them to court – and won. The critic was ordered by the court to tweet an apology message a total of 466 times over a period of 30 days. The apology read: “I have severely insulted Jean-Francois Cope and Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet. I regret and apologize.” The critic was also ordered to pay court costs as well as a fine.
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