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Polish journalists sued by clothing company over article about protective COVID-19 masks

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Journalists Wojciech Cieśla and Julia Dauksza were sued by Polish clothing company LPP over an article they published online in Newsweek Poland about the company’s policies on the distribution of protective COVID-19 masks that its producing. The company also filed a lawsuit against Newsweek editor Aleksandra Karasińska and the publisher Ringier Axel Springer Polska.

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