An Elon Law scholar of the First Amendment used thorough analysis of a $1.6 billion suit versus cable television news huge FOX News for a current report by Yahoo News on a “trove of evidence” revealed in current court filings.
Professor Enrique Armijo talked to press reporter Caitlin Dickson for her March 7 story on libel accusations versus FOX News made by Dominion Voting Systems. The dependability of Dominion’s ballot device innovation was cast doubt on 2 years back by FOX News characters who duplicated claims of citizen scams following President Joe Biden’s election.
Deposition records, email and text records gathered by Dominion throughout the discovery procedure of the business’s suit suggests those claims of citizen scams were advanced by FOX News characters even when the very same characters thought the claims to be incorrect.
From “‘An egregious violation of journalism ethics’: Experts slam Fox News’ conduct in Dominion case”:
Legal specialists informed Yahoo News that the breadth of proof provided by Dominion is uncommon for libel cases brought versus media companies, which need public figures to show that defamatory declarations were made with real malice, implying that the offender understood they were incorrect at the time or showed “reckless disregard” for the fact.
“It’s just so rare to have such contemporaneous evidence of a defamation defendant’s state of mind when the statements are being made,” Enrique Armijo, a First Amendment scholar and teacher at Elon University School of Law, informed Yahoo News. “It’s pretty bad when you have someone in the news department saying, ‘This person is crazy,’ and then interviewing that person on the air.”
Armijo is a Fellow at George Washington University’s Institute for Data, Democracy & Politics, and an Affiliate Fellow of the Yale Law School Information Society Project and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life.
He teaches and investigates in the locations of the First Amendment, constitutional law, torts, administrative law, media and web law, and global liberty of expression. His scholarship deals with the interaction in between brand-new innovations and totally free speech.
