The trial, watched by millions across the world, set a new precedent for celebrity court cases.
A Marriage on Trial: Johnny Depp, Amber Heard and Truth in the Age of Social Media
, the NBC News documentary launches tonight at 10:30pm EST, and will be available on demand on Peacock and NBCNews.com. Following the trial’s result — which weighed heavily in Johnny Depp’s favour, despite him previously losingnewspaper’s Dan Wootton, who labelled him a “wife beater” in a 2017 headline — conflicts arose amongst online supporters of Amber Heard. It’s beenthat the mass influx of algorithm-based social media content, much of which dissected her mannerisms and reactions during the trial, played a significant part in shifting the public’s opinion towards her.
While still fresh, it’s a case ripe for dissection, and it seems NBC have wasted no time in bringing their perspective on the case to the fore. In a description uploaded to NBC’s site,is described as the following: “The Depp v. Heard defamation trial evoked two distinct reactions – those who couldn’t get enough and those who received more than they wanted.
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