Appeals Court Revives Project Veritas Defamation Lawsuit Against CNN

Project Veritas’s lawsuit accusing CNN of publicizing false statement that Twitter banned Project Veritas for spreading misinformation has been revived, with an appeals court ruling the nonprofit journalism group has plausibly alleged defamation. Twitter in 2021 banned Project Veritas for sharing private information without consent after the group posted a video showing the residence of a Facebook official. Ana Cabrera, a CNN employee, shared the development on Twitter. A CNN article written by Brian Fung also detailed what had transpired. Four days later, on a CNN program, Cabrera said that “We’re starting to see companies cracking down to try to stop the spread of misinformation and to hold some people who are spreading it accountable.” She noted the ban on Project Veritas before saying “this is part of a much broader crackdown, as we mentioned, by social media giants that are promoting misinformation.”...