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| Pro-Trump rally right after the 2020 election |
Dominion Voting Systems has sued Fox News for making
claims of potential election fraud, for $1.6 billion. The Dominion attorneys say that Fox showed a “reckless
disregard for the truth”. Jazmin Goodwin
reports for CNN.
Now consider a distant issue, YouTube’s ban on showing
news coverage claiming the supposed 2020 election “steal” even when uttered by
a protester who expresses the view in a demonstration, at least without counterveiling
views.
If a protester uttered something “defamatory” and a
news journalist aired it on a video, could the journalist (owning the YouTube
channel) somehow be found liable for “defamation”? I wonder.
(If journalists edited out possible defamation they wouldn’t be
reporting the news accurately. But YouTube seems to accept this kind of contradiction -- or else the question is, who gets to call themself a "journalist"?)
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