Posted on 05/23/2025 8:25:02 AM PDT by BenLurkin
An Indigenous tribe from the Brazilian Amazon has sued The New York Times, saying the newspaper’s reporting on the tribe’s first exposure to the internet led to its members being widely portrayed as technology-addled and addicted to pornography.
The Marubo Tribe of the Javari Valley, a sovereign community of about 2,000 people in the rainforest, filed the defamation lawsuit seeking hundreds of millions of dollars in damages this week in a court in Los Angeles.
It also names TMZ and Yahoo as defendants, alleging that their stories amplified and sensationalized the Times’ reporting and smeared the tribe in the process.
The suit says the Times’ June 2024 story by reporter Jack Nicas on how the group was handling the introduction of satellite service through Elon Musk’s Starlink “portrayed the Marubo people as a community unable to handle basic exposure to the internet, highlighting allegations that their youth had become consumed by pornography.”
“These statements were not only inflammatory but conveyed to the average reader that the Marubo people had descended into moral and social decline as a direct result of internet access,” an amended version of the lawsuit filed Thursday says. “Such portrayals go far beyond cultural commentary; they directly attack the character, morality, and social standing of an entire people, suggesting they lack the discipline or values to function in the modern world.”
The piece makes no other mention of porn, but that aspect of the story was amplified and aggregated by other outlets including TMZ, which ran a story and accompanying video headlined, “Elon Musk’s Starlink Hookup Leaves A Remote Tribe Addicted To Porn.”
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Thank you very much and God bless you.
Welcome to modern civilization, Marubos.
It’s called ‘PROJECTION’, Marubos!.............
Sue them into oblivion!
The primary deception of all "mainstream" media is the pretense they know what is going on.
That’s correct.
Pronto.
Do they have an only fans page?
Good early lesson. The NYT are liars that smear for an agenda.
In this case, the agenda was to promulgate the lie that civilization is bad and evil and the tale of the noble savage corrupted by it.
Does anyone else notice the irony here?
THE ROAD TO HELL IS PAVED WITH GOOD INTENTIONS.
Just leave those people alone. They have 2000 tribespeople, You are not helping them.
This is great. Bet the Times never even considered getting any push-back from a backward tribe, let alone a lawsuit.
Before Starlink, they had to rely on old National Geographic magazines for the good stuff!
Remarkably, they did not sue Pornhub or Onlyfans, since they didn’t say anything bad about the tribe’s access to adult content.
If they win the suit, they will probably just waste the money on hookers and blow.
Yuppers...
BIZZARE!
They are hooked on “Debbie Does Dallas” reruns.
Wait until the LGBTQ porn videos reach them.They will likely all commit sewercide.
I think the tribe should get at least 80 billion. That would eliminate the NYT.
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