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The Biggest Loser In Depp v. Heard: The ACLU
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The Biggest Loser In Depp v. Heard: The ACLU

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Ben Domenech
Jun 02, 2022
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The outcome of the Johnny Depp v. Amber Heard defamation case will be debated mostly as a depiction of the messy nadir of MeToo — with the throughline from Harvey Weinstein to Aziz Ansari to Johnny Depp serving as stand-ins for the way things went wrong with the movement. But the real loser here ought to be the American Civil Liberties Union, who wrote …

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