Advertisement A self-described citizen journalist tweeting “cynical” and “cranky” stock market gossip is not, in the eyes of the law, a journalist, the Federal Court has ruled. Stock trader-turned-mining investor Tolga Kumova is suing New Zealand man Alan Davison over posts under his Twitter account, Stock Swami, that the former rich-lister says defamed him. Tolga Kumova was named on the Financial Review’s young rich list in 2017, reporting his net worth was $95 million. Credit:Eddie Jim Mr Kumova, a former New Century Resources board member, claims Mr Davison’s tweets infer he was engaged in insider trading and manipulating the stock market. Mr Davison denies his tweets meant that and is fighting the lawsuit using the defences of contextual truth and justification.