A Delaware judge has dismissed a disinformation expert’s defamation lawsuit against Fox News, finding that the expert failed to show that the disputed statements were false or that they constituted opinion.
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Nina Jankowicz was the former director of a Department of Homeland Security unit charged with monitoring the disinformation threat. Last year, she sued the network and its parent company, Fox Corp., in Delaware court, alleging that the network was waging a “malicious campaign of destruction” against her. The case was later moved to federal court.
In her lawsuit, she alleged that the network falsely claimed she was trying to censor Americans' speech, that she had been fired from the federal government and that she sought to give verified Twitter users, including herself, the power to edit other people's tweets.
But Colm F. Connolly, chief judge of the U.S. District Court in Delaware, rejected 36 statements Jankowicz cited in her claim, ruling that it is “undisputed that those statements are not ‘by and concerning plaintiff,’ but instead were directed at the division board, DHS, or the Biden administration.”
