Doe v. Dirty World Entertainment [1]

An anonymous Texas woman has filed suit in state court against the operator of The Dirty [2], self-described as the "first and most famous reality gossip blog," for allegedly lending credence to a third-party comment on the site that showed her picture and accused her of having herpes. According to True/Slant [3], the suit alleges the third-party poster asked the blog's founder, Hooman Karamian, if he would still sleep with the woman — to which Karamian allegedly replied, "No, I don't want to get infected."

According to the ABA Journal [4], the suit also names as a defendant Dirty World Entertainment, the Arizona-based owner of the website. The ABA Journal also reports that the plaintiff will argue the defendants should not be protected by Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act because Karamian allegedly made comments that validated the third-party post.