www.americanthinker.com By Peter Barry Chowka
It’s been largely under the radar until now, but third-place cable news channel CNN is facing a new problem: a potential jury trial to defend itself against charges that it libeled Project Veritas with a fake news report in 2021.
The long-simmering news finally broke wider on Thursday when Reuters reported the most recent developments in “CNN must face Project Veritas’ defamation lawsuit, US appeals court rules:”
A U.S. federal appeals court on Thursday revived a defamation lawsuit accusing CNN of defaming Project Veritas in its explanation of why the conservative group, which is often accused of using deceptive tactics, was suspended from Twitter in 2021.
The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta said Project Veritas could sue over CNN journalist Ana Cabrera’s on-air statement that it was suspended for “promoting disinformation,” rather than for publishing private information, or “doxxing.”
Without ruling on the merits, the three-judge panel also said Project Veritas plausibly alleged that CNN acted with actual malice, meaning it knew Cabrera’s statements were false or acted with reckless disregard for their truth.
Screenshot CNN Feb. 15, 2021 of the broadcast that figures in the Project Veritas lawsuit
Project Veritas was founded by James O’Keefe in 2010. He left the organization in 2023. Over the years, it has produced and released newsmaking undercover videos documenting a wide range of corruption and cover-ups in the media and government entities.
Currently, the organization describes itself as “a 501(c)3 nonprofit funded solely by the American people:”
We are journalists exposing corruption in government, media, big tech, politics, education, and beyond through undercover video…
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