From today's decision by Chief Judge Colm Connolly (D. Del.) in Jankowicz v. Fox News Network:
According to the Complaint, [Nina] Jankowicz is "an internationally recognized expert in disinformation" who served as the Executive Director of the now-defunct Disinformation Governance Board (the Board) housed within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)…. The Complaint alleges that Jankowicz resigned from the Board's Executive Director position "as a result of Fox's false statements and the ensuing harassment." In the Complaint's words:
Fox made three categories of repeated false claims about Jankowicz. First, over the course of over a year, Fox built a narrative calculated to lead consumers to believe that Jankowicz intended to censor Americans' speech.
Anyone consuming Fox starting in April 2022 understood that Fox was telling them that Jankowicz and the Board were out to censor them and that they should be afraid of her.
Second, Fox hosts, guests, and/or commentators said that Jankowicz was fired from DHS. In fact, as Fox knew, Jankowicz had resigned due to harassment arising from Fox's defamation.
Third, Fox hosts, guests, and/or commentators said that Jankowicz wanted to give verified Twitter users the power to edit others' tweets. They relied extensively on an obviously manipulated video—the full version of which was publicly available—to transform her description (and indeed, skepticism) of a developing beta feature on Twitter into a false declaration that she would supposedly police online speech on the platform.
Jankowicz sued Fox for defamation, but the court granted Fox's motion to dismiss:
