“what here qualifies as motzi shem ra?”
Midvar sheker tirchak- never tell a lie
Did anyone watch the chofetz chaim video on tisha b’av?
It eventually became clear that he was questioning the truth of the story.
(At least, I think that’s what happened here.) Claiming that the story was
false is claiming that its presenters were lying.
What if the case was worse than just a restaurant?
Q: “If I did something bad, whats the right thing to do?”
A: Oh, you’re concerned about the right thing, are you?!
I’ll bring you a counter proof:
The shefatim when they brought Yosef’s cloak didn’t say your son died rather they said is this your sons cloak to which Yaakov said a wild animal are him up
How about a source that that was the right thing to do?