Weird thing is, Britain doesn't just have "you said something mean which violates this standard that would never fly in America" cases - they still have "making crap up" cases! This one (where the source committed fraud) ended up killing a publication.
en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?...
Some major outlets just repeated the claims, others investigated properly and published "the dude was totally making crap up" stories three years into it, plus Scotland Yard wasted a *lot* of time/effort (and harassed the falsely accused) operating under the assumption it was all true.
