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Trump v the BBC: a legal expert explains how the case could play out

The BBC is the latest media organisation to be targeted by Donald Trump’s highly litigious machine. The fallout over a Panorama episode that included a misleadingly edited clip of the US president’s January 6 2021 speech led to the resignation of two BBC executives, and Trump’s threat to sue the…

The Conversation

New York Times v Sullivan: the 60-year old Supreme Court judgment that press freedom depends on in Trump era

Donald Trump is attempting to sue the New York Times. In a lawsuit filed on September 15 the US president charged that the paper, two Times journalists and also the publisher Penguin Random House committed libel and defamation against him in series of articles and a book discussing his business…

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Trump’s suit against the New York Times is nonsense. Yet it poses a grave threat

The president won’t prevail in court. But his cases against media companies have a potential chilling effect on criticism of the government

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The case that saved the press – and why Trump wants it gone

President Donald Trump is again attacking the American press – this time not with fiery rally speeches or by calling the media “the enemy of the people,” but through the courts.

The Conversation

If Dominion prevails against Fox News, that won’t harm press freedoms

Quite a few observers, including liberals, are anxious that a victory for Dominion could backfire. Those worries are misplaced

The Guardian - US

This Supreme Court precedent could protect Fox News. The right has been trying to get rid of it for years

Vital protections for a free press have long been the target of right-wing figures, which have been trying to chip away at the same defence that Fox needs to beat its defamation case, Alex Woodward reports from Delaware

The Independent UK

Defamation is at the heart of Dominion's lawsuit against Fox News – but proving it is no small feat

The aftershocks of the 2020 presidential election continue to reverberate in politics and the media, building to an crescendo in a high-profile defamation lawsuit.

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Conservatives Who Want To Weaken Defamation Standards May Regret Opening That Can of Worms

Contrary to the Supreme Court's First Amendment precedents, Donald Trump thinks harsh criticism of the president should be actionable.

Reason

Florida Gov. DeSantis floats legislation that would make it easier to sue news outlets

TAMPA, Fla. — Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis raised the possibility Tuesday of passing legislation that could lower the bar for prominent people to successfully sue news outlets for defamation.

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