On Friday The Evening Standard, a London-based free newspaper owned by the Russian billionaire and former intelligence officer Alexander Lebedev, took down from its website a story about the former directors of a listed media company who now run the popular websites Joe.ie and Lovin Dublin.  John Quinlan, the chief executive of Joe.ie, told The Currency he had asked for it to be taken down because he alleged it was untrue and defamatory, and the paper agreed to remove the story from its website. The deleted story was a skirmish in a more complex dispute with a Luxembourg entity called…

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