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Food blogger Jack Monroe has won 拢24,000 damages, plus legal costs, in a libel action against columnist Katie Hopkins after a row over two tweets.

Is Twitter becoming a new battleground for libel law? Matthew Nicklin QC, from media law chambers 5RB, tells PM that libel and defamation laws "apply just as much to Twitter" as they do to broadcasters and newspapers.

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