How about John Gill's "exposition" of Exodus 23:1 which prohibits making a false report against a person?
Exodus 23:1 Thou shalt not raise a false report Of a neighbour, or of any man whatever, either secretly by private
slanders, whispers, backbiting and tale bearing, by innuendos,
detracting from his good name and credit, suggesting things false and
wicked concerning him; or publicly in a court of judicature,
bringing a false accusation, laying a false charge, and
bearing a false testimony against him: or "thou shall not receive a false report"
F16;
if there were not so many, that say, Report, and we will report it,
that are ready to receive every ill thing of their neighbours, there
would not be so many that would raise such ill things of them;
everything of this kind should be discountenanced, and especially by
judges in courts of judicature, who are chiefly spoken to and of in the
context; these should not easily admit every charge and accusation
brought; nor bear, or endure a false report, as the word also signifies,
but discourage, and even punish it:
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