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Digital Defamation and Reputation Damage in the Age of Viral Content: Legal and Ethical Implications

Digital defamation has become a serious threat to reputation in Nigeria because false statements now spread faster than traditional legal and institutional responses. Through platforms such as Facebook, X, TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, blogs, and WhatsApp groups, fake allegations can quickly damage a person’s dignity, employment prospects, business reputation, political standing, family relationships, and social acceptance. This article adopted the doctrinal research methodology. It relied on primary legal sources, including the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999, the Cybercrim…

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Source	OpenAlex research
Collection	International records
Kind	Document
Publisher	JOURNAL OF LAW AND GLOBAL POLICY
Date	2026-09-04
Type	article
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Found at	https://doi.org/10.56201/jlgp.vol.11.no2.2026.pg162.176
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Digital Defamation and Reputation Damage in the Age of Viral Content: Legal and Ethical Implications. OpenAlex research, 2026. Vero Archive, record openalex:W7208735410.