OAN Ordered to Pay MSNBC $250,000 After Losing Defamation Suit
thewrap.comOne America News lost an appeal of its defamation suit against MSNBC and its famed host Rachel Maddow on Tuesday after a panel upheld a previous federal court ruling against OAN that requires them to pay $250,000 of the defendants’ legal fees.OAN, owned by Herring Networks Inc., sued Maddow for $10 million in July 2019 after she ran a segment stating that OAN employee Kristen Rouz worked for OAN, but was “also being paid by the Russian government to produce government-funded pro-Putin propaganda for a Russian government funded propaganda outfit called Sputnik.”The appellate court held that Maddow’s statement was well within the bounds of what qualified as protected speech under the First Amendment. “We conclude that the challenged statement.
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