Global Relief Foundation, Incorporated v. New York Times Company, Associated Press, American Broadcasting Companies, Incorporated

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• stating that, for the defense of substantial truth to apply to a defamation action under Illinois law, \it is not necessary to establish the literal truth of inoffensive details\ so long as \the gist of a defamatory statement is substantially true\
• ″none of the articles concluded that [Global Relief] was actually guilty of the conduct for which it was being investigated″
• broadcast that government was investigating a nonprofit organization’s alleged funding of terrorism was substantially true based upon government affidavits indicating it was investigating the reported [* ] allegations

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