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Judge Tosses Out Defamation Lawsuit Against Media Ratings Site NewsGuard
Consortium News had sued NewsGuard over its low rating.
U.S. District Judge Katherine Polk Failla also dismissed claims brought against the U.S. government, which was named in the lawsuit as NewsGuard once had a contract with the U.S. Air Force’s USAF Research Lab. The judge also concluded that Consortium News did not “plausibly allege” that the statements were false, and that the media outlet failed to show that NewsGuard acted with actual malice, the standard that public figure plaintiffs have to meet in defamation claims.. The judge wrote, “Plaintiff argues that there was a ‘meeting of the minds’ between the Government and NewsGuard to ‘share and work mutually toward the identical interest in identifying and suppressing’ foreign propaganda, sufficient to constitute joint action.
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