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Florida Jury Finds CNN Defamed Navy Veteran, Awards Him Millions in Damages -- With More to Come
A Florida jury found that CNN liable of defaming Navy veteran Zachary Young on Friday, and awarded him a total of $5 million in addition to finding that punitive damages were warranted against the network.
The verdict follows other high-stakes media defamation cases against Fox News, which agreed to pay $787 million to Dominion voting systems, and ABC, which agreed to give $15 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s presidential library.
In his lawsuit against the cable news network, Young sought damages over a November 2021 report in which CNN chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt claimed that bad actors were reportedly running a black market and charging exorbitant fees to Afghans attempting to flee their country after the Taliban retook control of it earlier that year.
Segments about Marquardt’s report ran on both Jake Tapper and Jim Acosta’s shows. Young’s name and face featured in both segments; he was the only individual identified by Marquardt.
The verdict follows other high-stakes media defamation cases against Fox News, which agreed to pay $787 million to Dominion voting systems, and ABC, which agreed to give $15 million to President-elect Donald Trump’s presidential library.
In his lawsuit against the cable news network, Young sought damages over a November 2021 report in which CNN chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt claimed that bad actors were reportedly running a black market and charging exorbitant fees to Afghans attempting to flee their country after the Taliban retook control of it earlier that year.
Segments about Marquardt’s report ran on both Jake Tapper and Jim Acosta’s shows. Young’s name and face featured in both segments; he was the only individual identified by Marquardt.
https://www.mediaite.com/news/breaking-florida-jury-finds-cnn-defamed-navy-veteran-awards-him-millions-in-damages/