Trump Suing CNN
Today on Occam’s Razor, we dissect President Trump’s announcement of a defamation lawsuit against CNN! More from RedPill78.
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The Sandmann Cometh For NBC
NBC became the third media-news outlet to settle a defamation lawsuit with Nick Sandmann over coverage of his confrontation with a Native American elder near the Lincoln Memorial in 2019. Sandmann has already settled suits with CNN and The Washington Post. Terms of the NBC settlement are confidential.
Sandmann, then a 16-year-old from Covington, Ky., also has pending lawsuits against The New York Times, CBS News, ABC News, Rolling Stone and Gannett. Sandmann filed the suits after the media outlets wrongly portrayed him in a viral video of the confrontation following the March For Life rally. Here’s more on the story from Vee.
Twitter In Huge Trouble
A British Columbia judge ruled that a defamation lawsuit filed against Twitter by Canadian businessman and founder of Lions Entertainment, Frank Giustra, can indeed proceed in the province.
Viva Frei’s David Freiheit says the decision is purely procedural because it relates only to the jurisdiction. There is no determination on the merits or final judgment, but the implications for Twitter is huge, because it now allows for the social media giant to be sued for defamation outside the United States. Says Freiheit, “It’s not a lawsuit based on defamation, blaming the defendant of having uttered the defamatory words, it’s a lawsuit against Twitter for having hosted the defamatory words.”
Giustra, a Clinton family confidant and board member of the Clinton Foundation, claims he was defamed when 2016 tweets accused him of involvement in the Pizzagate sex-trafficking scandal. Twitter filed a motion in 2019, asking the B.C. court to dismiss the lawsuit or favor moving the jurisdiction to California, where Twitter is located. Here’s the rundown on Viva Frei.
