What is the test for a defamation claim against a party to make a statement deemed defamatory?

Most significant here is the requirement that the challenged implications of fact must not be "substantially true." ( Summit Bank v. Rogers (2012) 206 Cal.App.4th 669, 697, 142 Cal.Rptr.3d 40, italics added.) "[T]he law does not require [the defendant] to justify the literal truth of every word of the allegedly defamatory content.... It is sufficient if the defendant proves true the substance of the charge, irrespective of slight inaccuracy in the details, "so long as the imputation is substantially true so as to justify the gist or sting of the remark." " ( Ibid. ) Thus, "the statement is not considered false unless

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