Posted on 05/12/2023 7:31:54 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Nina Jankowicz, the former head of the Department of Homeland Security’s now disbanded Disinformation Governance Board, filed a defamation lawsuit against Fox News on Wednesday, weeks after the network settled with Dominion Voting Systems.
“Fox’s employee hosts and commentators derided and lied about Jankowicz on repeat — and continue to do so even today, the lawsuit states. “Several of these falsehoods stand out as especially destructive — and directly contrary to available, verifiable evidence."
The coverage led to "immediate online harassment and threats, which continue even now," according to the suit.
Ms. Jankowicz, a prominent specialist in Russian disinformation and online harassment, became the primary subject of their attacks. In 300 mentions over eight months on Fox last year, she was repeatedly demeaned and defamed in highly personal language, the lawsuit asserts. Hosts including Tucker Carlson, Maria Bartiromo and Sean Hannity said her job was “to silence anyone who criticizes the Biden administration” and possibly even, as Mr. Carlson warned, “get men with guns to tell you to shut up.”
The unit Ms. Jankowicz briefly headed, called the Disinformation Governance Board, had no such powers, or any direct authority to affect speech. The department created it to help unify and oversee existing efforts by its various divisions to monitor and defend against disinformation from foreign agents seeking to influence elections; cartels promoting human smuggling operations; and those seeking to undermine the government’s public health and safety efforts. (NYT)
In an interview with The New York Times, Jankowicz, who resigned from the board after intense criticism, said Fox News should be held accountable.
“Even after achieving their stated goal of driving me out of government and ending the board, they kept using me as a punching bag,” she said. “It shouldn’t be something we just accept — that the most powerful cable network in the world can attack individuals willy-nilly and not face any consequences after they ruin their lives.”
Jankowicz’s attorney, Rylee Sommers-Flanagan, said the Dominion case shows that defamation lawsuits against Fox can be successful.
“Dominion shows us how egregious the internal conversations that are happening at Fox are; it shows us that Fox News has an absolute disregard for truth when it is related to their ratings,” she told the Times.
Let me guess the jurisdiction: DC or NYC?
Settling can cost much more than you save if you can afford the first fight.
This kind of things opens up vast avenues for Trump to start suing the entire MSM.
The left are full steam ahead to destroy fox, which is stupid of them because fox is their ally
I wonder what Mzzz Jankowicz intends to do with the money when she wins. Probably buy some new pant suits and shoes.
Dominion was a product, not a person. This allowed them were to skirt the “public official” standard required for defamation lawsuits.
And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we've proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.
I only wish that both sides could lose.
Have at it. We don’t care.
FOX News should have never settled with Dominion.
She’s a lo0n and moron with no case, but Pox News wanted a post-Trump fk-fk world and got it.
Now they’re getting smashed from all ends. Awesome to watch all the fail.
A double-major in Russian and political science, Jankowicz graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 2011 and spent a semester at Herzen State Pedagogical University in Russia in 2010.[2][3] In 2017, she was a Fulbright fellow in Kyiv, working with the foreign ministry of Ukraine.[4] She has also served as a disinformation fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and as supervisor of the Russia and Belarus programs at the National Democratic Institute.[5]
It’s really strange how the smell of money brings them out from whatever rock they’re hiding under.
A double-major in Russian and political science, Jankowicz graduated from Bryn Mawr College in 2011 and spent a semester at Herzen State Pedagogical University in Russia in 2010.[2][3] In 2017, she was a Fulbright fellow in Kyiv, working with the foreign ministry of Ukraine.[4] She has also served as a disinformation fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Center and as supervisor of the Russia and Belarus programs at the National Democratic Institute.[5]
It’s really strange how the smell of money brings them out from whatever rock they’re hiding under.
We need serious guardrails around lawfare. It’s FAR out of control and very one-sided.
If this nitwit’s suit is allowed and she wins, this essentially destroys any news organization’s ability to provide commentary or political opinion-makers. It would bleed from television, to radio, to blogs, to social media.
In other words, just what this little Nazi wanted when she had the job.
The First Amendment is taking a real beating. Who will stand up for it...?
Indeed leave cash at the under the bench before the trial.
Conservatives should start suing CNN and MSNBC.
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