Does removing a blog comment make you responsible for potentially libelous material in your blog?

“If you remove one comment from a blog, are you libel for the other comments on your blog?”

We turned to Mark Goodman, Knight Chair of Scholastic Journalism at Kent State.

No, he said. You may even edit a comment as long as you don’t change the intent of the comment.

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