Fox News Faces New Defamation Lawsuit By Disinformation Expert Who Led Homeland Security Panel
deadline.comFox News is facing another defamation lawsuit, this time from the former executive director of a Department of Homeland Security division tasked with monitoring the threat of disinformation.
Nina Jankowicz sued the network and parent Fox Corp. in Delaware Superior Court. That’s the same venue where Dominion Voting Systems was poised to go to trial in its case against the company before Fox agreed to pay a whopping $787.5 million to settle it.
In her lawsuit (read it here), Jankowicz claimed that the network last year began a “malicious campaign of destruction” against her. “Over the course of eight months in 2022, Fox talked about Jankowicz more than 300 times,” according to the lawsuit. “Across its broadcast and online publications, Fox’s employee hosts and commentators derided and lied about Jankowicz on repeat—and continue to do so even today.” The New York Times first reported on Jankowicz’s suit.
Jankowicz claimed in her lawsuit that the network became “obsessed” with her when she was appointed at the executive director of DHS’s Disinformation Governance Board, an internal working group that actually had “no operating authority or capability.” Instead, it was set up to coordinate “between federal agencies and officials who track and respond to disinformation that poses a national security threat—for example, disinformation spread by adversarial states and transnational criminal enterprises,” according to the lawsuit.
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