B.C. Supreme Court upholds $350K damages award against influencer for defamatory videos

By Morgan Camley, Andrew Mollard and Ivy Yang (September 3, 2024, 12:33 PM EDT) -- The B.C. Supreme Court recently issued a significant ruling in the case of I Buy Beauty LLC v. Dong, 2024 BCSC 815, awarding a beauty company $350,000 in damages after a YouTuber made a series of defamatory videos about the company and its products. In awarding such a large damages award, the court sought to compensate the plaintiffs, denounce the defendant’s conduct and deter other social media personalities from seeking to profit by saying increasingly scandalous things online....