Riley Gaines Might Just Make Pink News Into The Next Gawker Over This Libel

Sources hint at potentially devastating liability

Maleficium evidence is inadmisible in 21st century courts

In a story posted Friday morning, the LGBTQAlphabetical website that has become synonymous with libel blamed former college swimmer Riley Gaines for someone making a bomb threat against a library in California. Gaines tweeted her intent to sue Pink News just a few hours later.

A source close to Gaines has confirmed for The Distance that she is following through on her litigation threats. As we reported this spring after Gaines was mobbed by woke campus cretins in San Francisco, she has become intolerant of libels. Pink News chose to lie about exactly the wrong woman.

To accuse someone of a third party’s crime in a headline, without evidence of any connection or even an exhortaiton to the act, is a deeply irresponsible and unprofessional blunder, a violation of the ethics of journalism. It is prima facie libel, meaning that Gaines does not have to ‘prove’ her innocence, merely show that she has been damaged.

Contrarily, in order t…