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# For Fact’s Sake podcast: Are strategic legal threats killing good journalism?
- URL: https://www.theferret.scot/for-facts-sake-strategic-legal-threats-journalism/
- Published: 2023-06-22T11:21:03.000Z
- Updated: 2025-10-17T12:16:19.000Z
- Author: Ferret Journalists
- Tags: Fact Checks, #davesutton2gmail-com, Podcast, clickbait, Index on Censorship, investigative journalism, lawsuit, Nicola Sturgeon, SLAPP, strategic litigation against public participation, Gino D'Acampo, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2025-10-15 12:08, #older_unmetered

Episode 11 of For Fact’s Sake is all about how journalists and fact-checkers are often stifled by legal action.

We spoke to Nik Williams from Index on Censorship (and The Ferret’s co-chair) about strategic litigation against public participation, more commonly known as SLAPPs.

A SLAPP is a legal threat that is often aimed at stopping an accurate piece of information from entering the public domain.

Also on the podcast, Ali and Paul look at a bad photoshop of Nicola Sturgeon, and discuss a fake article about the untimely death of (very much alive) celebrity chef Gino D’Acampo.

[![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/2d/e2/2de2844d-80a7-4c7b-8025-6f1f39724aa6/content/images/2025/10/screenshot-2023-06-22-120846.png)](https://player.captivate.fm/episode/c756840d-ec1e-4ed6-9aa8-b64f095bfb84?ref=theferret.scot)

#### Show notes:

- You can see the work of [Index on Censorship here](https://www.indexoncensorship.org/?ref=theferret.scot).
- Our Sturgeon arrest [fact check is here](https://www.theferret.scot/nicola-sturgeon-arrest-police-car-image-false/).
- Read the [full story of Gino D’Acampo’s fake obituary](https://twitter.com/mrmmarsh/status/1668183547574624257?s=46&ref=theferret.scot) in this excellent thread by Michael Marshall.

*Photo credit: iStock/Choreograph*