Here's some news we're just hearing about but wanted to share, considering the amount of disinformation out there about Vice President Kamala Harris' authority over the border. Nina Jankowicz, chair of the short-lived Disinformation Governance Board — the self-styled "Mary Poppins of Misinformation" who had called the Hunter Biden laptop story a "fairy tale" — had her defamation suit against Fox News tossed out earlier this week.
The federal court has dismissed the defamation case of Nina Jankowicz. As some of us predicted, the criticism of Jankowicz was deemed opinion. https://t.co/mMsya7BUyG The court found that what the Disinformation Governance Board was doing was appropriately called censorship...
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 22, 2024
...The opinion shatters the spin out out by Jankowicz and the anti-free speech movement:
— Jonathan Turley (@JonathanTurley) July 22, 2024
"Fox contends, and I agree, that Jankowicz has not pleaded facts from which it could plausibly be inferred that the challenged statements regarding intended censorship by Jankowicz are not…
… are not substantially true. On the contrary, as noted above, censorship is commonly understood to encompass efforts to scrutinize and examine speech in order to suppress certain communications. The Disinformation Governance Board was formed precisely to examine citizens’ speech and, in coordination with the private sector, identify “misinformation,” “disinformation,” and “malinformation.” D.I. 31-1 at 10. For the reasons discussed above, that objective is fairly characterized as a form of censorship."
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Apparently, though, her GoFundMe account for legal expenses is still up as she plans to appeal.
Former Biden “disinformation tsar” Nina Jankowicz is continuing her GoFundMe campaign to fund her Fox News lawsuit, even though her case was laughed out of court. She says she will appeal. pic.twitter.com/kKX5B2R3Sf
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) July 23, 2024
Reuters reports:
Fox News Media and its parent Fox Corp won a ruling on Monday dismissing a lawsuit by a former Biden administration official who accused the media giant of defaming her as a proponent of censorship.
Chief U.S. District Judge Colm Connolly in Delaware ruled, that Nina Jankowicz, who resigned from her U.S. Department of Homeland Security post in May 2022, could not back up her defamation claims.
Jankowicz sued Fox, opens new tab last year, claiming she was forced to resign from the Disinformation Governance Board as a result of the company's broadcasts. She said Fox had “intentionally trafficked in malicious falsehoods to pad its profits.” Fox denied the claims.
Fox News Media said in a statement on Monday that it was pleased with the decision, calling the case "a politically motivated lawsuit aimed at silencing free speech."
@julie_kelly2 Mary Poppins now has to pay all of her legal expenses out of pocket.
— joe miller (@joemill37087868) July 22, 2024
Bad day for Mary Poppins, eh @wiczipedia?
— Chris Nethery (@ChrisANethery) July 22, 2024
When you act like an insufferable twit in public life, you can expect to be treated as a twit.
— FUZZ (@LS_WHISPERER) July 24, 2024
A well deserved loss for Communist Scary Poppins
— Magnus Flaherty (@FlahertyMagnus) July 23, 2024
Sounds like she was peddling … disinformation… in her argument.
— Ideal Swell 🌊 (@IdealSwell) July 23, 2024
We don't know where she came from but she needs to go away.
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