Candice Owens is openly blasting her accusations from the rooftops after being warned of potential defamation.
Legally, even under the defamation standard for public figures under New York Times v. Sulllivan, she's in big trouble.
My point is that what was “whispered” would be libel in today’s world.
“So and so whispered such and such to me about so and so.”
If they had today’s cell phones they could have proved the “whispers” happened.
We are litigation happy these days.