PARIS — A French appeals court on Wednesday overturned the defamation conviction of Sandra Muller, the French journalist behind France's answer to the #MeToo movement, whom a judge ordered to pay $17,600 to the man she accused of sexual harassment.
Muller coined the viral hashtag #balancetonporc ("expose your pig") to describe TV executive Eric Brion.
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