Thread by @allthecitizens

🔴 Journalists and lawyers providing evidence to the @UKHouseofLords said the impact of #SLAPP cases is the tip of the iceberg, with pre-court intimidation and the threat of costly legal proceedings meaning countless articles never get published

pressgazette.co.uk/impact-slapp-c…

@UKHouseofLords "In terms of the pressure it puts on the journalists, the legal action is never in isolation".

Clara Rewcastle-Brown @sarawak_report describes the massive vilification, surveillance, hacking, attacks, and defamation she endured over the course of her investigations.

#STOPSLAPPs

🔴Susan Coughtrie @FPCThinkTank: "We conducted a survey a couple of years ago with 63 journalists in 41 countries. Over 70% had received a legal threat, and the Uk was identified as the international leading source of those threats"

.@wildfranz, @TBIJ: “As we were preparing for publication, lawyers from Carter-Ruck approached us and what ensued was a flurry of very lengthy letters and immediately turned the tables on us, accused us of dishonesty, tried to identify our sources…to undermine the reporting.”