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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: SVPete on September 18, 2025, 10:09:46 AM
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Biden’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ Czar is Furious After Appeals Court Tosses Her Case Against Fox News
https://www.lifezette.com/2025/09/bidens-ministry-of-truth-czar-is-furious-after-appeals-court-tosses-her-case-against-fox-news/ (https://www.lifezette.com/2025/09/bidens-ministry-of-truth-czar-is-furious-after-appeals-court-tosses-her-case-against-fox-news/)
The Third Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled against former Department of Homeland Security (DHS) official Nina Jankowicz in her defamation lawsuit against Fox News, upholding a lower court’s dismissal of the case.
Jankowicz briefly led the Biden=Harris administration’s Disinformation Governance Board in 2022, a DHS initiative that officials said was designed to counter threats to homeland security from disinformation.
The board was widely criticized and quickly derided as a “ministry of truth.” Jankowicz herself faced scrutiny over her prior social media posts, which included amplifying claims about Russian collusion and suggesting that Trump supporters might bring weapons to polling places.
Lawfare fail.
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:cheerleader2: :bday:
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Appeals Court Dismisses 'Mary Poppins of Disinformation' Lawsuit Against Fox News
https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/09/19/mary-poppins-of-disinformation-has-lawsuit-against-fox-news-dismissed-n4943888 (https://pjmedia.com/rick-moran/2025/09/19/mary-poppins-of-disinformation-has-lawsuit-against-fox-news-dismissed-n4943888)
Nina Jankowicz, the former chair of Joe Biden's Disinformation Governance Board, was upset at Fox News when the outlet ran stories accusing her of doing her job: trying to stifle speech in opposition to her boss, the president.
Jankowicz sued Fox in federal court on the unprecedented grounds that Fox's critical reporting made her feel "unsafe."
"Jankowicz alleged that Fox News's defamatory coverage forced her to resign in 2022 from the Disinformation Governance Board, the short-lived agency she briefly helmed at the Department of Homeland Security, and caused unspecified harm to her well-being that could only be fixed with a massive financial settlement," reported the Washington Free Beacon.
A lower court unceremoniously tossed the suit, and the appeals court was, if anything, quicker in giving her lawsuit the heave-ho. They didn't buy her argument that Fox defamed her by showing her picture when criticizing the disinformation board.
In non-lawyer-speak, such a case requires proving two basic elements:
* Significantly false information published/broadcast
A misspelling, an imprecise date or title, a differing opinion, an indirect association are not defamation.
* Actual damage
Provable economic, reputation, and future career path damage, not vague "I feel".
The court ruled that her case failed to show actual defamation; it would also fail the provable damage standard. She tried to play victim in a lawfare lawsuit and failed. And, unsurprisingly, she is still tantrumming. She should be required to pay Fox's legal costs, IMO, to discourage frivolous lawfare suits, but I don't know if she is.
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The Ministry of """Truth"""...
Another bullet we dodged.
Until Democrats try again, that is.
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Jankowicz herself faced scrutiny over her prior social media posts, which included amplifying claims about Russian collusion and suggesting that Trump supporters might bring weapons to polling places.
So this person "amplified" claims about something that didn't happen...She should STFU and try not to draw any attention to herself.
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So this person "amplified" claims about something that didn't happen...She should STFU and try not to draw any attention to herself.
S/h/it sounds almost like a DUmp'Rat level leftist loon. I'm not certain s/h/it even knows HOW to avoid drawing attention to s/h/itself...