smear campaign

Presidential Pep Secretary Karoline Leavitt publicly identified the victim as the late Virginia Giuffre and accused Democrats of a politically motivated smear campaign.

The FPOe, founded by former Nazis, dismissed the criticism as a "smear campaign", saying Dinghofer was a "victim of the Nazi regime".

Lawyers for the reservists argued in the news conference that their clients were the victims of a smear campaign orchestrated by Tomer-Yerushalmi.

Blake Lively is seeking more than $161 million in damages from an alleged smear campaign involving “It Ends With Us” co-star Justin Baldoni, including lost acting jobs and financial blows to her alcohol and hair-care brands.

In June, Judge Liman explained that Baldoni's lawsuit centred on two claims: that Lively "stole the film" from him and his production company Wayfarer by threatening not to promote it, and that she and others promoted a false narrative that Baldoni sexually assaulted her and launched a smear campaign against her.