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Respond to false, damaging statements about you or your business — decide what actually counts as defamation, preserve evidence, and choose the right response from correction to takedown to legal action. Use when asked someone posted lies about me, respond to a false review/statement, is this defamation, or protect my reputation online. Produces a read on whether it likely crosses from opinion into actionable falsehood, evidence-preservation steps, a tiered response (platform report, correction/retraction request, cease-and-desist, legal), and a caution against reactions that make it worse. Not legal advice.

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# Defamation Response

A false, damaging statement is infuriating — but the wrong response (a public flame war, an overblown legal threat) often amplifies it or backfires. This helps you tell the difference between defamation and mere opinion or fair criticism, preserve the evidence, and pick a proportionate response — from a platform report to a retraction demand to, where truly warranted, legal action. It isn't legal advice.

## What This Skill Produces

- **An is-it-defamation read** — a plain-English gut-check on whether it's likely an actionable false statement of fact vs. protected opinion, criticism, or true (if unflattering) statements
- **Evidence preservation** — screenshots with URLs, dates, reach, and any provable harm, captured before it's deleted
- **A tiered response** — from platform/review reporting and a calm public correction, to a private retraction/removal request, to a cease-and-desist, to legal action
- **A "don't make it worse" caution** — how not to amplify (the Streisand effect), inflame, or say something actionable yourself
- **An escalation flag** — when real reputational/financial harm warrants a defamation lawyer

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