Project Veritas Loses Defamation Suit Against CNN

Law & Crime reports:

CNN did not defame Project Veritas by depicting the group’s Twitter ban as part of a social media crackdown on “misinformation,” a federal judge ruled on Friday. On Feb. 11, 2021, CNN anchor Ana Cabrera reported that Twitter permanently banned Project Veritas for “repeated violations of Twitter’s policies prohibiting the sharing—or threats of sharing—of other people’s private information without consent.”

After the broadcast, Project Veritas’s counsel demanded a retraction and then sued after CNN declined to grant one. Founded by conservative activist James O’Keefe, Project Veritas is known for its disseminating surreptitiously recorded videos on news organizations, as well people and entities perceived to be aligned with the political left. Its sting videos have made it a magnet for litigation and criminal investigations.

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U.S. District Judge Steve C. Jones wrote that “Project Veritas’s allegations and arguments do not plausibly suggest that the truth (as pled in the Complaint) would have a different effect on the mind of the average reader in terms of the reputational harm” https://t.co/qLjh26QFzx

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